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Before the time that Alexander the Great occupied Egypt, the Greek name, sphinx, was already applied to these statues. [citation needed] The historians and geographers of Greece such as Herodotus wrote extensively about Egyptian culture. There was a single sphinx in Greek mythology, a unique demon of destruction and bad luck.
Eris (/ ˈ ɪər ɪ s, ˈ ɛr ɪ s /; Greek: Ἔρις Éris, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is Discordia, which means the same. Eris's Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Roman counterpart is Concordia, [3] though she is also described as opposing Nike, counterpart of the Roman Victoria.
Classical mythology, also known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology, along with philosophy and political thought , is one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later Western culture . [ 1 ]
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. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Morals translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by.
The word dragon derives from the Greek δράκων (drakōn) and its Latin cognate draco.Ancient Greeks applied the term to large, constricting snakes. [2] The Greek drakōn was far more associated with poisonous spit or breath than the modern Western dragon, though fiery breath is still attested in a few myths.
According to Greek mythology, [1] the Chimera, Chimaera, Chimæra, or Khimaira (/ k aɪ ˈ m ɪər ə, k ɪ-/ ky-MEER-ə, kih-; Ancient Greek: Xίμαιρα, romanized: Chímaira, lit. 'she-goat') [ 2 ] was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia , Asia Minor , composed of different animal parts.
However, it has also been speculated to have derived from the Proto-Indo-European neik-meaning to attack or "start vehemently". If this is true it would make the word cognate with Ancient Greek νεῖκος (neîkos, "strife") and Lithuanian ap-ni̇̀kti ("to attack"). [12] It is also spelled Νίκα (Nika) in Doric and Aeolic Greek dialects.
A. Audin connects the figure of Janus to Culśanś and Turms (Etruscan rendering of Hermes, the Greek god mediator between the different worlds, brought by the Etruscan from the Aegean Sea), considering these last two Etruscan deities as the same. [249] This interpretation would then identify Janus with Greek god Hermes.