Pindar
Penthesileia is an Amazonian queen, daughter of Ares and Otrera. In the Trojan war, Penthesileia begs Achilles for her life, but the hero remains unmoved by her pleas and he kills her. When Achilles removes her helmet, he falls in love with Penthesilea’s beauty.
Penthesileia
The dryad Penelope, “wild duck”, resides on mount Kyllene in Arcadia. Penelope is the daughter of Dryops and she is the mother of the god Pan.
La nymphe Pénélope, “canard sauvage”, réside sur le mont Cyllène en Arcadie. Pénélope est la fille de Dryops et elle est la mère du dieu Pan.
The dryad Penelope
Atropos
Chronos
Thucydides wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides
Danaë is the mother of Perseus. Zeus came to her in the form of golden rain.
Danaë
Alcestis is a tragedy by Euripides. The Moirae promise that if anyone would want to die instead of Admetus, they would allow it. Since no one volunteers, not even his elderly parents, his wife Alcestis steppes forth. Heracles decides to confront Hades when the funerary sacrifices are made at Alcestis’ tomb, to bring her back from the dead.
Alcestis
