Oedipus – Mythopedia
2023年5月15日 · Oedipus, son of Laius and Jocasta, was a Greek hero and king of Thebes, celebrated for defeating the fearsome Sphinx. He suffered a tragic downfall, however, when he discovered that he had unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. Oedipus was abandoned in the wilderness soon after his birth when his father learned of a prophecy that ...
Sphinx – Mythopedia
2023年3月25日 · When the Sphinx posed her riddle, Oedipus reasoned that humans walk on all fours as infants, on two legs as adults, and on three legs—their two legs and a cane—when old. He thus responded with the correct answer: man. Oedipus and the Sphinx by François-Émile Ehrmann (1903). Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France.
Tiresias - Mythopedia
2023年2月27日 · Tiresias, son of the nymph Chariclo, was a remarkably long-lived prophet of Thebes. Inseparable from the mythology of his storied city, he played a central role in the lives of everyone from Cadmus to the Seven against Thebes. Tiresias was blessed with experiences and abilities that went beyond his famous clairvoyance and longevity.
Eteocles – Mythopedia
2023年10月2日 · Eteocles was a Greek hero and king of Thebes, the son of Oedipus and Jocasta (or, in an alternative tradition, of Eurygania). Eteocles and his brother Polynices were said to have insulted their father Oedipus, who cursed them as a result. Later, Eteocles and Polynices agreed to share the throne of Thebes, but Eteocles failed to honor the ...
Erinyes (Furies) – Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Avi Kapach is a writer, scholar, and educator who received his PhD in Classics from Brown University. The Erinyes (“Furies”) were terrifying sisters who acted as goddesses of vengeance and retribution. From their grim home in the Underworld, the Erinyes punished crimes that violated the natural order—especially offenses against family ...
Apollo – Mythopedia
2023年4月11日 · Apollo was a powerful Greek god and one of the Twelve Olympians. He served as the divine patron of prophecy, healing, art, and culture, as well as the embodiment of masculine beauty. Apollo belonged to the second generation of Olympians, along with his twin sister Artemis, goddess of the wild and hunting. He was commonly represented as a kouros ...
Antigone – Mythopedia
2023年2月15日 · Antigone was one of the children of Oedipus and his mother Jocasta (or, in an older version, of Oedipus and Euryganea). She proved her piety by following her father Oedipus during his exile and taking care of him for years. Later, Antigone defied her tyrannical uncle Creon by burying her traitorous brother Polynices when he was killed in the ...
Ismene – Mythopedia
2023年8月23日 · Ismene was a princess of Thebes, one of the children born from Oedipus ’ incestuous marriage to his mother Jocasta. Her siblings were Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. In one early myth, Ismene was killed by the Calydonian hero Tydeus at the instigation of Athena; this was punishment for taking Periclymenus (or Theoclymenus) as her lover.
Theseus – Mythopedia
2023年5月16日 · Sophocles: Theseus is a major character in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus (ca. 406 BCE), welcoming the dying Oedipus into Athens and guaranteeing his burial. Euripides: Euripides’ (428 BCE) tells the story of Phaedra’s illicit passion for Hippolytus and Hippolytus’ subsequent death.
Pentheus – Mythopedia
2023年7月21日 · The surviving literature does not name Pentheus’ wife, but there was evidently a tradition in which he had a son named Oclasus. This Oclasus was the father of Menoeceus, who went on to father Creon and Jocasta (best known from the Oedipus myth). Oedipus Separating from Jocasta by Alexandre Cabanel (1843) Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mythology