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In Greek mythology, Hermus or Hermos ( Ancient Greek: Ἕρμος) is a name attributed to multiple characters: Hermus, god of the river Hermus (modern Gediz river) located in the Aegean region of Lydia (modern Turkey ). Like most of the river-gods, he was the son of Oceanus and Tethys. [1] Hermus was the father of the Lydian nymphs.
Candaules (died c.687 BC; Greek: Κανδαύλης, Kandaulēs ), also known as Myrsilos (Μυρσίλος), [1] was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in the early years of the 7th century BC. According to Herodotus, he succeeded his father Meles as the 22nd and last king of Lydia's Heraclid dynasty. He was assassinated and succeeded by ...
Neaera ( / niˈɪərə /; Ancient Greek: Νέαιρα), also Neaira ( / niˈaɪrə / ), is the name of multiple female characters in Greek mythology : Neaera, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [1] Neaera or Neera, a Nereid and possible mother of Absyrtus by King Aeetes of Colchis.
Roman oil lamp, 1st century AD. Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her ...
Croesus. Died: c. 546 bc. Title / Office: king (546BC-560BC), Lydia. Role In: Siege of Sardis. Croesus (died c. 546 bc) was the last king of Lydia (reigned c. 560–546), who was renowned for his great wealth. He conquered the Greeks of mainland Ionia (on the west coast of Anatolia) and was in turn subjugated by the Persians.
Echetus, a king of Epirus. Eetion, a king of Cilician Thebe and father of Andromache. Electryon, a king of Tiryns and Mycenae; son of Perseus and Andromeda. Elephenor, a king of the Abantes of Euboea. Eleusis, eponym and king of Eleusis, Attica. Epaphus, a king of Egypt and founder of Memphis, Egypt.
For other uses, see Niobe (disambiguation). In Greek mythology, Niobe ( / ˈnaɪ.ə.biː /; Greek: Νιόβη [ni.óbɛː]: Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione (as most frequently cited) or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa. Niobe was the wife of Amphion and the sister of Pelops and Broteas .
