The Minyades ( ‹See Tfd› Greek : Μινυάδες ) were three Orchomenian ( Arcadian ) princesses in Greek mythology . These sisters were protagonists of a myth about the perils of neglecting the worship of Dionysus .
50-505: The names of the Minyades were Alcathoe (or Alcithoe), Leucippe and Arsippe (although instead of "Arsippe", Claudius Aelianus calls the latter "Aristippa", and Plutarch " Arsinoë "; Ovid uses " Leuconoe " instead of "Leucippe"). They were daughters of Minyas , king of Orchomenus, Boeotia . At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia , and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over
100-564: A Titan (being the brother of Cronus and Rhea), and the mythographer Apollodorus 's inclusion of Dione , the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus, as a thirteenth Titan, suggests an Orphic tradition in which the Titan offspring of Oceanus and Tethys consisted of Hesiod's twelve Titans, with Phorcys and Dione taking the place of Oceanus and Tethys. According to Epimenides , the first two beings, Night and Aer, produced Tartarus , who in turn produced two Titans (possibly Oceanus and Tethys) from whom came
150-813: A bat, another an owl and the third an eagle owl. And all three continuously avoided the light of the sun. Leucippe Greek deities series Primordial deities Titans and Olympians Chthonic deities Personified concepts Water deities Amphitrite Ceto Glaucus Nereus Oceanus Phorcys Pontus Poseidon Potamoi Proteus Tethys Thetis Triton Water nymphs Crinaeae Eleionomae Hyades Limnades Naiads Nereids Oceanids Pegaeae Pegasides Potamides v t e In Greek mythology , Leucippe ( Ancient Greek : Λευκίππη means 'white horse' )
200-440: A figure thought to be Tethys: a part of a chiton below Oceanus' left arm and a hand clutching a large tree branch visible behind Oceanus' head. In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab) and the lower body of a serpent ( cfr. Typhon ). In Roman mosaics, such as that from Bardo , he might carry
250-458: A later Iliad passage, Hypnos also describes Oceanus as " genesis for all", which, according to Gantz, is hard to understand as meaning other than that, for Homer, Oceanus was the father of the Titans. Plato , in his Timaeus , provides a genealogy (probably Orphic) which perhaps reflected an attempt to reconcile this apparent divergence between Homer and Hesiod, in which Uranus and Gaia are
300-481: A person (such as Oceanus visiting Prometheus in Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , see above) Oceanus is more usually considered to be a place, that is, as the great world-encircling river. Twice Hesiod calls Oceanus "the perfect river" ( τελήεντος ποταμοῖο ), and Homer refers to the "stream of the river Oceanus" ( ποταμοῖο λίπεν ῥόον Ὠκεανοῖο ). Both Hesiod and Homer call Oceanus "backflowing" ( ἀψορρόου ), since, as
350-519: A poem (probably Orphic) which has an angry Oceanus brooding aloud as to whether he should join Cronus and the other Titans in the attack on Uranus. And, according to Proclus, Oceanus did not in fact take part in the attack. Oceanus seemingly also did not join the Titans in the Titanomachy , the great war between the Cronus and his fellow Titans, and Zeus and his fellow Olympians , for control of
400-516: A priestess of Apollo and went from country to country in search of her father, Thestor and sister Theonoe who was stolen by pirates. Leucippe, mother of Egyptian king, Aegyptus by Hephaestus . Leucippe, mother of Teuthras the Mysian king. Her son killed a sacred boar of Artemis during hunt and was driven mad by the angry goddess. Lysippe then went out in the woods, seeking to find out what had happened to her son. Eventually she learned about
450-576: A section of the Iliad called the Deception of Zeus , suggest the possibility that Homer knew a tradition in which Oceanus and Tethys (rather than Uranus and Gaia, as in Hesiod) were the primeval parents of the gods. Twice Homer has Hera describe the pair as "Oceanus, from whom the gods are sprung, and mother Tethys". According to M. L. West , these lines suggests a myth in which Oceanus and Tethys are
500-1166: A specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leucippe&oldid=1259794668 " Categories : Set index articles on Greek mythology Oceanids Greek mythological priestesses Queens in Greek mythology Trojans Atlanteans Mythological Argives Egyptian characters in Greek mythology Atlantis Characters in Greek mythology Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text All articles containing suspected AI-generated sources Articles containing suspected AI-generated sources from November 2024 All set index articles Oceanus Many Oceanids including: In Greek mythology , Oceanus ( / oʊ ˈ s iː ə n ə s / oh- SEE -ə-nəs ; ‹See Tfd› Greek : Ὠκεανός [ɔːke.anós] , also Ὠγενός [ɔːɡenós] , Ὤγενος [ɔ̌ːɡenos] , or Ὠγήν [ɔːɡɛ̌ːn] )
550-469: A steering-oar and cradle a ship. Oceanus appears in Hellenic cosmography as well as myth . Cartographers continued to represent the encircling equatorial stream much as it had appeared on Achilles ' shield. Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus and rejected the reasoning—proposed by some of his coevals—according to which the uncommon phenomenon of the summerly Nile flood
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#1732797943048600-539: A very similar procession of Peleus and Thetis' wedding guests, on another early sixth century BC Attic black-figure pot, the François Vase (Florence 4209). As in Sophilos' dinos, Oceanus appears at the end of the long procession, following after the last chariot, with Hephaestus on his mule bringing up the rear. Although little remains of Oceanus, he was apparently shown here with a bull's head. The similarity in
650-585: Is the name of the following individuals: Leucippe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys . Leucippe, along with her sisters, was one of the companions of Persephone when the maiden was abducted by Hades , the god of the Underworld . Leucippe, one of the Minyades , daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus . Leucippe,
700-517: The Charites ; Doris , the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids ; Callirhoe , the wife of Chrysaor and mother of Geryon ; Clymene , the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas , Menoetius , Prometheus , and Epimetheus ; Perseis , wife of Helios and mother of Circe and Aeetes ; Idyia , wife of Aeetes and mother of Medea ; and Styx , the great river of the underworld river, and
750-582: The Cimmerians , the Aethiopians , and the Pygmies as living nearby Oceanus. In Homer, Helios the sun, rises from Oceanus in the east, and at the end of the day sinks back into Oceanus in the west, and the stars bathe in the "stream of Ocean". According to later sources, after setting, Helios sails back along Oceanus during the night from west to east. Just as Oceanus the god was the father of
800-486: The Dionysian Mysteries . When the sisters declined the invitation, the god metamorphosed himself successively into a bull, a lion, and a panther, and the sisters were driven mad. In this state of madness , they were eager to honor the god, and Leucippe, who was chosen by lot to offer a sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own son Hippasus , whom the sisters tore to pieces. The sisters afterwards roamed over
850-733: The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean , the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks. However, as geography became more accurate, Oceanus came to represent the stranger, more unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean (also called the " Ocean Sea "), while the newcomer of a later generation, Poseidon , ruled over the Mediterranean Sea. Late attestations for an equation with the Black Sea abound,
900-717: The Theogony , or near Elysium , in the Iliad , and in the Odyssey , has to be crossed in order to reach the "dank house of Hades ". And for both Hesiod and Homer, Oceanus seems to have marked a boundary beyond which the cosmos became more fantastical. The Theogony has such fabulous creatures as the Hesperides , with their golden apples, the three-headed giant Geryon , and the snake-haired Gorgons , all residing "beyond glorious Ocean". While Homer located such exotic tribes as
950-651: The nymph Arethusa and pursued her to Syracuse where she was transformed into a spring by Artemis ; and Scamander who fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War and got offended when Achilles polluted his waters with a large number of Trojan corpses, overflowed his banks nearly drowning Achilles. According to Hesiod, there were also three thousand Oceanids. These included: Metis , Zeus ' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; Eurynome , Zeus' third wife, and mother of
1000-468: The world egg . When Cronus, the youngest of the Titans, overthrew his father Uranus , thereby becoming the ruler of the cosmos, according to Hesiod, none of the other Titans participated in the attack on Uranus. However, according to the mythographer Apollodorus , all the Titans—;except Oceanus—attacked Uranus. Proclus , in his commentary on Plato's Timaeus , quotes several lines of
1050-439: The "first parents of the whole race of gods." However, as Timothy Gantz points out, "mother" could simply refer to the fact that Tethys was Hera's foster mother for a time, as Hera tells us in the lines immediately following, while the reference to Oceanus as the genesis of the gods "might be simply a formulaic epithet indicating the numberless rivers and springs descended from Okeanos" (compare with Iliad 21.195–197 ). But, in
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#17327979430481100-678: The "immense sea" by Pomponius Mela and by Dionysius Periegetes , and which is named Mare majus on medieval geographic maps. Apollonius of Rhodes , similarly, calls the lower Danube the Kéras Okeanoío ("Gulf" or "Horn of Oceanus"). Hecataeus of Abdera also refers to a holy island, sacred to the Pelasgian (and later, Greek) Apollo , situated in the westernmost part of the Okeanós Potamós , and called in different times Leuke or Leukos, Alba, Fidonisi or Isle of Snakes . It
1150-724: The Perseus Digital Library . Plato , Critias in Plato in Twelve Volumes , Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library . Greek text available at the same website. Pseudo-Plutarch , De fluviis , in Plutarch's morals, Volume V , edited and translated by William Watson Goodwin , Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1874. Online version at
1200-493: The Perseus Digital Library . Scholia to Lycophron's Alexandra , marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). Online version at the Topos Text Project. . Greek text available on Archive.org [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an internal link for
1250-596: The Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website . Gaius Julius Hyginus , Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. 1960. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , Morals translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin , Ph.D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5. Online version at
1300-629: The cause being – as it appears – Odysseus' travel to the Cimmerians whose fatherland, lying beyond the Oceanus, is described as a country divested from sunlight. In the fourth century BC, Hecataeus of Abdera writes that the Oceanus of the Hyperboreans is neither the Arctic nor Western Ocean, but the sea located to the north of the ancient Greek world, namely the Black Sea , called "the most admirable of all seas" by Herodotus , labelled
1350-409: The city to go as Bacchantes in the hills until Dionysus took on the likeness of a girl and urged the Minyades not to miss out on the rites or mysteries of the god. But they paid no heed to him. At this—not surprisingly—Dionysus was angered and instead of a girl became a bull, then a lion, then a leopard. From the beams of their looms there flowed for him milk and nectar. At these portents, terror gripped
1400-1013: The connection stating that "if the family tree recorded by Apollodorus is correct, Batia could hardly have been the wife of Ilus, since she was his great-grandmother" ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, prologue & 18 ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.3 ^ as cited in Apollodorus, 3.12.3, f.n. 8 & Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 3.250 which have the authority of the poet Alcman ^ Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue, 639 ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 128 ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 190 ^ Pseudo-Plutarch , De fluviis 16 . ^ Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 21.4 ^ Plato, Critias 113d ff. References [ edit ] Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at
1450-435: The cosmos; and following the war, although Cronus and the other Titans were imprisoned, Oceanus certainly seems to have remained free. In Hesiod, Oceanus sends his daughter Styx , with her children Zelus (Envy), Nike (Victory), Cratos (Power), and Bia (Force), to fight on Zeus' side against the Titans, And in the Iliad , Hera says that during the war she was sent to Oceanus and Tethys for safekeeping. Sometime after
1500-448: The end of a long procession of gods and goddesses arriving at the palace of Peleus for the wedding. Oceanus follows a chariot driven by Athena and containing Artemis . Oceanus has bull horns, holds a snake in his left hand and a fish in his right, and has the body of a fish from the waist down. He is closely followed by Tethys and Eileithyia , with Hephaestus following on his mule ending the procession. Oceanus also appears, as part of
1550-1012: The goddess' wrath from the seer Polyidus ; she then sacrificed to the goddess to propitiate her, and Teuthras' sanity was restored. Leucippe, the wife of Euenor and mother of Cleito in Plato ' s legend of Atlantis . Leucippe, the heroine of The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon by Achilles Tatius Notes [ edit ] ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 214. ISBN 9780786471119 . ^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter 418 ^ Antoninus Liberalis , 10 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses ^ Hyginus , Fabulae 14 ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 250 ^ Apollodorus , 3.12.2 ^ Scholia on Euripides , Hecuba 3 ^ Apollodorus , 3.12.3 & f.n. 7 which disregard
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1600-473: The great stream encircles the earth, it flows back into itself. Hesiod also calls Oceanus "deep-swirling" ( βαθυδίνης ), while Homer calls him "deep-flowing" ( βαθυρρόου ). Homer says that Oceanus "bounds the Earth", and Oceanus was depicted on the shield of Achilles , encircling its rim, and so also on the shield of Heracles. Both Hesiod and Homer locate Oceanus at the ends of the earth, near Tartarus, in
1650-437: The maidens. Without delay, the three threw lots into a pot and shook it. The lot fell to Leucippe and she vowed to offer as a sacrifice to the god her own son Hippasus whom she tore to pieces with the help of her sisters. Abandoning their paternal home, they went as Bacchantes in the mountains, browsing on ivy, honeysuckle, and laurel, until Hermes touched them with his wand and changed them into flying creatures. One of them became
1700-491: The mountains in Bacchic joy , these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god. Dionysus punished them by changing them into bats, and their work into vines. Plutarch , Aelian , and Antoninus Liberalis , though with some differences in the detail, relate that Dionysus appeared to the sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them to partake in
1750-701: The mountains in a frenzy, until at last Hermes changed them into bats. Plutarch adds that down to his time the men of Orchomenus descended from that family were called psoloeis ( ψολόεις ), that is, mourners, and the women oleiai or aioleiai ( ὀλεῖαι or αἰολεῖαι ), that is, the destroyers. Another retelling of the wrathful punishment of the Minyades by the god Dionysus appeared in Antoninus Liberalis ' Metamorphoses: The daughters of Minyas, son of Orchomenus, were Leucippe, Arsippe and Alcathoe. They turned out to be startlingly diligent. They strongly criticized other women because they abandoned
1800-696: The name being a loanword . However, according to West, no "very convincing" foreign models have been found. A Semitic derivation has been suggested by several scholars, while R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a loanword from the Aegean Pre-Greek non- Indo-European substrate . Nevertheless, Michael Janda sees possible Indo-European connections. Oceanus was the eldest of the Titan offspring of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). Hesiod lists his Titan siblings as Coeus , Crius , Hyperion , Iapetus , Theia , Rhea , Themis , Mnemosyne , Phoebe , Tethys , and Cronus . Oceanus married his sister Tethys, and
1850-564: The new ruler Zeus, and so avoid making his situation any worse. But Prometheus replies: "I envy you because you have escaped blame for having dared to share with me in my troubles." According to Pherecydes , while Heracles was travelling in Helios 's golden cup, on his way to Erytheia to fetch the cattle of Geryon , Oceanus challenged Heracles by sending high waves rocking the cup, but Heracles threatened to shoot Oceanus with his bow, and Oceanus in fear stopped. Although sometimes treated as
1900-537: The order of the wedding guests on these two vases, as well as on the fragments a second Sophilos vase (Athens Akr 587), suggests the possibility of a literary source. Oceanus is depicted (labeled) as one of the gods fighting the Giants in the Gigantomachy frieze of the second century BC Pergamon Altar . Oceanus stands half nude, facing right, battling a giant falling to the right. Nearby Oceanus are fragments of
1950-412: The parents of Oceanus and Tethys, and Oceanus and Tethys are the parents of Cronus and Rhea and the other Titans, as well as Phorcys . In his Cratylus , Plato quotes Orpheus as saying that Oceanus and Tethys were "the first to marry", possibly also reflecting an Orphic theogony in which Oceanus and Tethys, rather than Uranus and Gaia, were the primeval parents. Plato's apparent inclusion of Phorcys as
2000-515: The personification of the sea. However elsewhere the distinction between fresh and salt water seems not to apply. For example, in Hesiod Nereus and Thaumus , both sons of Pontus, marry daughters of Oceanus, and in Homer (who makes no mention of Pontus), Thetis , the daughter of Nereus, and Eurynome the daughter of Oceanus, live together. In any case, Oceanus can also to be identified with
2050-461: The river gods, Oceanus the river was said to be the source of all other rivers, and in fact all sources of water, both salt and fresh. According to Homer, from Oceanus "all rivers flow and every sea, and all the springs and deep wells". Being the source of rivers and springs would seem logically to require that Oceanus was himself a freshwater river, and so different from the salt sea, and in fact Hesiod seems to distinguish between Oceanus and Pontus ,
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2100-643: The sea. The concept of the surrounding Ocean, as expressed by Homer and Hesiod, remained in common use throughout antiquity. The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela said that the inhabited earth ‘is entirely surrounded by the Ocean, from which it receives four seas’. These four seas were the Caspian Sea , the Persian Gulf , the Arabian Gulf , and the Mediterranean Sea . However increasing knowledge of
2150-613: The seas led to modifications in this view. The Greek geographer Ptolemy identified various different oceans. One of these, the Western Ocean (the Atlantic Ocean ) was often called simply ‘the Ocean’, for instance by Julius Caesar . Oceanus is represented, identified by inscription, as part of an illustration of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis on the early sixth century BC Attic black-figure "Erskine" dinos by Sophilos ( British Museum 1971.111–1.1). Oceanus appears near
2200-498: The war, Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound , has Oceanus visit his nephew the enchained Prometheus , who is being punished by Zeus for his theft of fire. Oceanus arrives riding a winged steed, saying that he is sympathetic to Prometheus' plight and wishes to help him if he can. But Prometheus mocks Oceanus, asking him: "How did you summon courage to quit the stream that bears your name and the rock-roofed caves you yourself have made ..." Oceanus advises Prometheus to humble himself before
2250-544: The wife of Pallas and mother of Zelus , Nike , Kratos , and Bia . According to Epimenides ' Theogony , Oceanus was the father, by Gaia , of the Harpies . Oceanus was also said to be the father, by Gaia, of Triptolemus . Nonnus , in his poem Dionysiaca , described "the lakes" as "liquid daughters cut off from Oceanos". He was said to have fathered the Cercopes on one of his daughters, Theia . Passages in
2300-490: The wife of King Laomedon . According to the mythographer Apollodorus , she and Laomedon had five sons, Tithonus, Lampus , Clytius , Hicetaon , and Priam , and three daughters, Hesione , Cilla and Astyoche . Otherwise the wife of Laomedon was identified as Strymo , daughter of Scamander or Placia , daughter of Otreus or Zeuxippe . Leucippe, a daughter of Thestor and possibly Polymele , and thus, sister of Theonoe , Calchas and Theoclymenus . She became
2350-409: The wife of King Thestius of Pleuron and mother of Iphiclus and Althaea . Leucippe, a queen of Troy as the wife of Ilus , founder of Ilium . By him, she became the mother of Laomedon and possibly, Themiste , Telecleia and Tithonus . In some accounts, the wife of Ilus was called Eurydice , daughter of Adrastus or Batia , daughter of Teucer . Leucippe, another Trojan queen as
2400-532: Was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia , the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys , and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids , as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world. According to M. L. West , the etymology of Oceanus is "obscure" and "cannot be explained from Greek". The use by Pherecydes of Syros of the form Ōgenós ( Ὠγενός ) for the name lends support for
2450-556: Was by her the father of numerous sons, the river gods and numerous daughters, the Oceanids . According to Hesiod, there were three thousand (i.e. innumerable) river gods. These included: Achelous , the god of the Achelous River , the largest river in Greece, who gave his daughter in marriage to Alcmaeon and was defeated by Heracles in a wrestling contest for the right to marry Deianira ; Alpheus , who fell in love with
2500-517: Was caused by the river's connection to the mighty Oceanus. Speaking about the Oceanus myth itself he declared: As for the writer who attributes the phenomenon to the ocean, his account is involved in such obscurity that it is impossible to disprove it by argument. For my part I know of no river called Ocean, and I think that Homer, or one of the earlier poets, invented the name, and introduced it into his poetry. Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including
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