Arcadian Cults of the Mistresses information

The Arcadian Cults of the Mistresses are ancient cults that were practised in the region of Arcadia (or Arkadia). Religious cults across Greece took on...

(Δέσποιναι, "the mistresses"). They are the two Great Goddesses of the Arcadian cults, and evidently they come from a more primitive religion. The Greek god...

Persephone with the nameless "mistress of the labyrinth". Demeter and Persephone were the two great goddesses of the Arcadian cults. According to Pausanias...

this cult we have traces of a very old cult of Demeter and Poseidon as deities of the underworld. In another Arcadian myth when Rhea had given birth to Poseidon...

chthonic cults, and in popular religion these were related to the goddess Demeter. In Greek religion potniai(mistresses) appear in plural (like the Erinyes)...

related to the pair of Arcadian great goddesses identified as Demeter and Kore. She was known by the additional epithet of Despoine among the general population...

Artemis (Arcadian epithet kallisto); this cult was a survival of very old totemic and shamanistic rituals and formed part of a larger bear cult found further...

daughter of Demeter in the Arcadian cults and she became the most popular goddess in Greece. The earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean...

under the title Murder Mountain "The Apples of the Hesperides": 12 May 1940 under the title The Poison Cup "The Arcadian Deer": 19 May 1940 under the title...

at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The chthonic goddess worshiped by the Arcadians under the title, Despoina (Δέσποινα: the Mistress)(later...

Germany: Habelt, pp. 438–452, ISBN 9783774918504 Jost, Madeleine (1996), "Arcadian cults and myths", in Hornblower, Simon (ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary...

a horse-pulled chariot. Though of little cultic importance, she was also associated with several oracles. The name of her Roman equivalent is Nox. According...

Poseidon in the form of a stallion and foaled Arion and the Daughter who was unnamed outside the Arcadian mysteries. Demeter was venerated as a mare in Lycosoura...

through the imperial cult of a Merovingian Great Monarch who occupies both the throne of Europe and the Holy See; and the actual governance of Europe residing...

branches of science and knowledge in exchange for a fee. In this age, Athens was the "school of Greece." Pericles and his mistress Aspasia had the opportunity...

In the myths, Apollo is the son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Leto, his previous wife or one of his mistresses. Apollo often appears in the myths...

For the crime of having tried to rape Leto, one of Zeus' mistresses, he was punished by having his liver being constantly eaten by two vultures in the Underworld...

your mistress's ways. What, are you trying to halt the motion of her whirling wheel? Dimmest of fools that you are, you must realize that if the wheel...

with the Minoan palace of Knossos. This is based on the reading of Linear B da-pu2-ri-to-jo-po-ti-ni-ja as λαβυρίνθοιο πότνια ("mistress of the labyrinth")...

occasionally adding human figures to his landscapes, some of them nudes, in a type of landscapes with an Arcadian air, with vaporous atmospheres and delicate tones...

stole the necklace from the Temple and offered it to his mistress. After she had worn it for a time, her son was seized with madness and set fire to the house...

Eudiades, which has been called "the most famous of his homoerotic poems": "The metaphors are Greek, the tone Arcadian and the emotions a bit sentimental for...

Rachel (2014). The women artists painted over by history (We all know about the great masters, but what happened to the great mistresses? Rachel Campbell-Johnston...