In Greek mythology , Melicertes ancient Greek , sometimes Melecertes , later called Palaemon is the son of the Boeotia n prince Athamas and Ino , daughter of Cadmus . Ino, pursued by her husband, who had been driven mad by Hera because Ino had brought up the infant Dionysus , threw herself and Melicertes into the sea from a high rock between Megara and Corinth, Greece Corinth , Both were changed into marine deities Ino as Leucothea , noted by Homer, ref Homer, Odyssey , 5.333 ref Melicertes as Palaemon. The body of the latter was carried by a Dolphins in mythology dolphin to the Isthmus of Corinth and deposited under a pine tree. Here it was found by his uncle Sisyphus , who had it removed to Corinth, and by command of the Nereid s instituted the Isthmian Games and sacrifices in his honour. Palaemon appears for the first time in Euripides Iphigeneia in Tauris , where he ... and safely ashore, give thanks to Melicertes. ref Ovid twice told the story of Ino s sea plunge with Melicertes in her arms. ref Ovid, Fasti 6.473ff, and Metamorphoses 4.416ff. ref Ovid s treatment ... with Leucothea, Melicertes Palaemon was widely invoked for protection from dangers at sea. ref ... of Melicertes was of foreign, probably Phoenician languages Phoenician , origin, and introduced ... Edouard Will, summarizing the debate in 1955, concluded in Korinthiaka 1955 169 note 3 that Melicertes ... connection between Heracles and Palaemon. Melicertes being Phoenician, Palaemon also has been explained ... excavation was published by Broneer in Hesperia 27 1958 1 57 . ref A cult of Melicertes of great antiquity, possibly based on pre Hellenic figures of Ino and Melicertes, was posited by Edouard ... characters in Greek mythology br Melikertes ca Melicertes cs Melikert s de Melikertes et Melikertes el es Melicertes eu Melizertes fr M licerte id Melikertes it Melicerte lt Melikertas hu Melikert sz nl Palaemon pt Melicertes ru simple Palaemon fi Melikertes uk ... more details
Palaemon may refer to Palaemon genus , a genus of shrimp An alternative name for the Greek hero Herakles An alternative name for the Greek hero Melicertes One of the Argonauts , son of Aetolus, son of Endymion Aetolus Remmius Palaemon , the ancient Roman grammarian Teacher of Saint Pachomius disambig be bg de Palaemon ru ... more details
merge Melicertes Talk Palaemon mythology Merger proposal date June 2010 multiple issues orphan May 2010 unreferenced May 2010 Palaemon , originally named Melicertes , was a minor, young sea god , son of Ino Greek mythology Ino Leucothea . He was deified by the gods when his mother threw herself from atop a cliff with Palaemon in her arms, arguably to escape insanity or to escape Athanas, King of Thebes at the time, and his father was driven to a murder ous rage after Hera pushed him to it. Early life Being a minor god , not as much was written about Palaemon, but he was a child in need of help. After his father was turned into a murderer by Hera, whose wrath his parents had incurred by fostering Palaemon, Palaemon s mother took with her him and jumped off a cliff to escape away from all the madness on Earth. By doing this the duo became a sea god and goddess, receiving their new names of Palaemon and Leukothea they help distressed sailors on voyages. Depiction In Greco Roman views, Palaemon is viewed as a dolphin riding boy, or a child with a Triton mythology triton tail. Mystery Greeks are not sure where exactly Palaemon got his name from. Some believe his original name, Melikertes, was derived from the pre existing god, Melkart Melqart from the Phoenicia n distortion. Then the Romans took the name Palaemon to mean the honey eater , and then god of the harbour . The name is also said to mean the wrestler . Mystery also surrounds Palaemon s death and deification. The Pseudo Hyginus , Fabulae 4 states, Ino with the younger son of her and Athamas , Melicertes, cast herself into the sea and was made a goddess. The Pseudo Hyginus Fabulae 239 states, Ino, daughter of Cadmus , killed her son Melicertes by Athamas, son of Aeolus, when she was fleeing from Athamas. It also sounds like a Digimon . Category Greek gods ... more details
for the genus of jumping spiders Athamas genus Image FLAXMAN John The Fury Of Athamas.jpg thumb right 200px The Fury of Athamas by John Flaxman 1755 1826 . The king of Orchomenus Boeotia Orchomenus in Greek mythology , Athamas lang el , was married first to the goddess Nephele with whom he had the twins Phrixus and Helle mythology Helle . He later divorced Nephele and married Ino Greek mythology Ino , daughter of Cadmus . With Ino, he had two children Learches and Melicertes . Athamas also had a brother, Salmoneus , who was the father of Tyro . ref Ovid IV, 416. ref Phrixus and Helle were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the town s crop seeds so they would not grow. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus. Athamas reluctantly agreed. Before he was killed, though, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying golden ram sent by Nephele, their natural mother. Helle fell off the ram into the Hellespont which was named after her and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis , where King Ae tes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope in marriage. In gratitude, Phrixus gave the king the Golden Fleece golden fleece of the ram, which Ae tes hung in a tree in his kingdom. ref name Ovid IV, 416 Ovid IV, 416. ref Later, Ino raised Dionysus , her nephew, son of her sister Semele , causing Hera s intense jealousy. In vengeance, Hera struck Athamas with insanity. Athamas went mad and slew one of his sons, Learchus Ino, to escape the pursuit of her frenzied husband, threw herself into the sea with her son Melicertes . Both were afterwards worshipped as marine divinities, Ino as Leucothea , Melicertes as Palaemon . ref name Ovid IV, 416 Athamas, with the guilt of his son s murder upon him, was obliged to flee from Boeotia ... more details
about Greek mythological figure Learchus disambiguation Learchus or Learches is a figure in Greek mythology and was the son of Athamas and Ino . Mythology The story of Learchus is part of the Theban Cycle which was elaborated by Ovid in his Metamorphoses . He was killed as a boy by his father, Athamas, whom Hera drove insane as punishment for having received and raised Dionysus , the illegitimate son of Zeus and Semele , Ino s sister. Athamas, blinded by the madness, exchanged Learchus for a lion or a ram, in other versions and killed him. After this, Athamas went in frenzied pursuit of Ino, who jumped into the sea with their other son, Melicertes . Ovid adds some details to this story, saying, for instance, that Learchus had spontaneously stretched out his arms to his father to hug him, not knowing that he was mad and would slay him. Dante Alighieri Dante cites this myth as an example of insanity in his Inferno Dante Inferno . References Ovid , Metamorphoses , Book IV, Fable VII Dante Alighieri Dante , Divine Comedy , Inferno Dante Inferno , Canto XXX, 7 12. Category Greek mythology Greek myth stub br Learc hos ca Learc cs Learchos fr L arque it Learco lt Learchas pl Learch ru fi Learkhos uk ... more details
Melicertes . Both were afterwards worshipped as marine divinities, Ino as Leucothea the white goddess , Melicertes as Palaemon . Alternatively, Ino was also stricken with insanity and killed Melicertes ... Zeus didn t want Ino to die, and transfigured her and Melicertes as Leucothea and Palaemon . The story of Ino, Athamas and Melicertes is relevant also in the context of two larger themes. are these themes ... more details
Image Ganga.jpg thumb A sketch of the goddess Ganga on her Vahana mount Makara Hindu mythology Makara File Exekias Dionysos Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2044.jpg thumb Dionysus in a ship, sailing among dolphins. Ancient Greece Ancient Greek Attic Black figure pottery black figure kylix drinking cup kylix , ca. 530 BC, from Vulci . Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich. Dolphin s appear in a number of Greek mythology Greek myths , invariably as helpers of humankind. Dolphins also seem to have been important to the Minoans , judging by artistic evidence from the ruined palace at Knossos . A dolphin rescued the poet Arion from drowning and carried him safe to land, at Cape Taenarum , now Cape Matapan , a promontory forming the southernmost point of the Peloponnesus . There was a temple to Poseidon and a statue of Arion riding the dolphin. Herodotus I.23 Thucydides I.128, 133 Pausanias geographer Pausanias iii.25, 4 The Greeks reimagined the Phoenicia n god Melqart as Melikert s Melicertes and made him the son of Athamas and Ino. He drowned but was transfigured as the marine deity Palaemon , while his mother became Leucothea . cf Ino . At Corinth, he was so closely connected with the cult of Poseidon that the Isthmian Games , originally instituted in Poseidon s honor, came to be looked upon as the funeral games of Melicertes . Image Estamno de Etruria M.A.N. Madrid 01.jpg thumb left Young aulos player riding a dolphin red figure stamnos , ca 360 340 BCE, found in Etruria , National Archaeological Museum of Spain National Archeological Museum, Madrid Phalanthus was another legendary character brought safely to shore in Italy on the back of a dolphin, according to Pausanias. Many seals and coins show a man or boy riding a dolphin. Dionysus was once captured by Etruscan civilization Etruscan pirate s who mistook him for a wealthy prince they could ransom. After the ship set sail Dionysus invoked his divine powers, causing vines to overgrow the ship where the mast and sails ... more details
about the asteroid 35 Leukothea Image Leucothea Allasseur cour Carree Louvre.jpg thumb 180px Leucothea by Jean Jules Allasseur 1862 , Cour Carr e of the Palais du Louvre . In Greek mythology , Leucothea lang el Leukothea , white goddess was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph. In the more familiar variant, Ino Greek mythology Ino , the daughter of Cadmus , sister of Semele , and queen of Athamas , became a goddess after Hera drove her insane as a punishment for caring for the new born Dionysus . She leapt into the sea with her son Melicertes in her arms, and out of pity, the Hellenes asserted, the Olympian gods turned them both into sea gods, transforming Melicertes into Palaemon , the patron of the Isthmian games , and Ino into Leucothea. In the version sited at Rhodes , a much earlier mythic level is reflected in the genealogy there, the woman who plunged into the sea and became Leucothea was Halia of the sea , a personification of the saltiness of the sea whose parents were from the ancient generation, Thalassa and Pontus or Uranus mythology Uranus . She was a local nymph and one of the aboriginal Telchines of the island. Halia became Poseidon s wife and bore him Rhodos Rhode and six sons the sons were maddened by Aphrodite in retaliation for an impious affront, assaulted their sister and were confined beneath the Earth by Poseidon. Thus the Rhodians traced their mythic descent from Rhode and the Sun god Helios . ref Graves 1955. ref In the Odyssey 5 333 ff. Leucothea makes a dramatic appearance as a gannet who tells the shipwrecked Odysseus to discard his cloak and raft and offers him a veil , kredemnon to wind round himself to save his life and reach land. Homer makes her the transfiguration of Ino. In Laconia, she has a sanctuary, where she answers people s questions about dreams. This is her form of the oracle. Cultural allusions Leucothea is mentioned by Robert Graves in ... more details
as a doublet of the fate of Melicertes , where the leap into the sea was that of his mother, Ino Greek mythology Ino . transformed into the white goddess Leucothea Melicertes was carried more dead than ... to the hero Melicertes Palaimon , who was placated with a noctunal chthonic rite, and the whose winners ... more details
The Isthmian Games or Isthmia ancient Greek were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece , and were named after the Isthmus of Corinth isthmus of Corinth , where they were held. As with the Nemean Games , the Isthmian Games were held both the year before and the year after the Ancient Olympic Games Olympic Games the second and fourth years of an Olympiad , while the Pythian Games were held in the third year of the Olympiad cycle. Origin The Games were reputed to have originated as funeral games for Melicertes also known as Palaemon , instituted by Sisyphus , legendary founder and king of Corinth , who discovered the dead body and buried it subsequently on the Isthmus of Corinth Isthmus . ref Apollodorus , Library http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Apollod 2e 3 2e4 2e3 3.4.3 Pausanias, Description of Greece http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Paus 2e 2 2e1 2e3 2.1.3 , http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text.jsp?doc paus. 201.44.8 1.44.8 . It is likely that Pindar already described this version of the origin of the games in a fragment of the Isthian odes . For more information, see E.R. Gebhard & M.W. Dickie, http humanities.uchicago.edu orgs isthmia publications hero hero.html Melikertes Palaimon, Hero of the Isthmian Games . ref ref the Isthmia lament Melicertes Eusebius , Preparation for the Gospel http www.tertullian.org fathers eusebius pe 02 book2.htm 2.6 Clemens, Protrepticus 2.34.1 . ref In Roman times, Melicertes was worshipped in the region. ref Pausanias, Description of Greece http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Paus 2e 2 2e1 2e3 2.1.3 , http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text.jsp?doc paus. 202.2.1 2.2.1 . ref Theseus , legendary king of Ancient Athens Athens , expanded Melicertes funeral games from a closed nightly rite into fully fledged athletic games event which was dedicated to Poseidon , open to all Greeks, and was at a suitable level of advancement and popularity to rival ... more details
Orphan date August 2009 File Pierre Granier Ino et M licerte Versailles.jpg thumb Ino and M licerte , Versailles s garden Pierre Granier 1655 1715 was a proficient but minor French sculptor, trained in the excellent atelier of Fran ois Girardon who produced a generation of highly competent sculptors for the B timents du Roi . ref D zallier d Argenville mentions Robert Le Lorrain , Granier, Ren Fr min 1672 1744, working at Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso La Granja until 1738 Nourisson, Charpentier and Jean Joly de Troyes ref Granier served as a modest member of the extensive team that provided sculpture for the Ch teau de Versailles ref Providing architectural sculpture Granier sculpteur, pour une figure de pierre repr sentant la Po sie et trois testes de femme la grande aisle 490 L ivres Jules Guiffrey, Comptes des B timents du Roi sous le r gne de Louis XIV , 1901 vol. II, p. 209 5 August 1682 http www.insecula.com contact A005368.html the Po sie pastorale , part of the Grande Commande , and other sculptures by Granier Dates and attributions are not reliable. . ref and its Gardens of Versailles gardens . Strict control over the subjects, scale, materials and to a great extent the design of sculpture for Versailles was exercised by the premier peintre du Roi , Charles Le Brun . According to Dezallier d Argenville Antoine Nicolas D zallier d Argenville , Le Brun provided a wax model for Granier s marble group Ino and Melicertes , and a Shepherdess was sculpted after a sketch given by Le Brun. ref Antoine Nicolas D zallier d Argenville. Vies Des Fameux Architectes Depuis la Renaissance Des Arts... , vol. II 1787 s.v. Granier, Pierre . ref Born at Les Matelles near Montpellier, he was an official of the Acad mie royale de peinture et de sculpture , where he was received in 1686 ref Ludovic Lalanne, Dictionnaire historique de la France , s.v. Acad mie de peinture et sculpture sic , following Ph. le Bas, Dictionnaire encyclop dique de l histoire de France ... more details
DISPLAYTITLE List of cultural references in Divine Comedy Image DanteDetail.jpg thumb right 250px Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino , Florence 1465. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts or cantica s the Inferno Dante Inferno Hell , Purgatorio Purgatory , and Paradiso Dante Paradiso Paradise , and 100 canto s, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos. Set at Easter 1300 , the poem describes the living poet s journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Throughout the poem, Dante refers to people and events from Classical antiquity Classical and Biblical history and mythology , the history of Christianity , and the Europe of the Medieval period up to and including his own day. A knowledge of at least the most important of these references can aid in understanding the poem fully. For ease of reference, the cantica names are abbreviated to Inf., Purg., and Par. Roman numerals are used to identify cantos and Hindu Arabic numerals Arabic numerals to identify lines. This means that Inf. X, 123 refers to line 123 in Canto X or 10 of the Inferno and Par. XXV, 27 refers to line 27 in Canto XXV or 25 of the Paradiso. The line numbers refer to the original Italian text. Boldface links indicate that the word or phrase has an entry in the list. Following that link will present that entry. id toc border 0 MediaWiki Toc A A B B C C D D E E F F G G H H I I J J K K L L M M N N O O P P Q Q R R S S T T U U V V W W X X Y Y Z Z &mdash References References NOTOC A Abbagliato See Spendthrift Spendthrift Club . span id Abel span Abel Bible Biblical second son of Adam Adam and brother of Cain Cain . Raised by Jesus Jesus from Limbo Limbo into Paradise . Inf. IV, 56 . Image Abraham.jpg thumb 250px right Abraham Sacrificing Isaac by Laurent de LaHire, 1650 Abraham Abraham the Patriarch Important biblical figure. Raised by Je ... more details
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