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Ion, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)Ion: see Creusa (1.)

Echidna, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)Echidna: see Typhon.

Alpheus, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)Alpheus ălfēˈəs [key], river god: see Arethusa. ...

hamadryads, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)hamadryads: see nymph.

Agave, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)Agave əgāˈvē [key]: see Pentheus. ...

Calliope, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)Calliope kəlīˈəpē [key]: see Muses; Orpheus. ...

Calypso, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia)Calypso kəlĭpˈsō [key], nymph, daughter of Atlas, in Homer's Odyssey. She lived on the island of Ogygia and there entertained Odysseus for seven years. Although she offered to make him immortal if...

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide

(Encyclopedia)Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854–1927, American educator and classical scholar, b. Randolph, Mass. Wheeler was a professor of Greek and comparative philology at Cornell before serving as president of the...

Syriac

(Encyclopedia)Syriac sērˈēăkˌ [key], late dialect of Aramaic, which is a West Semitic language (see Afroasiatic languages). The early Christians of Mesopotamia and Syria gave the Greek name Syriac to the Arama...

Callimachus, fl. 2d half of 5th cent. b.c., Greek sculptor from Athens

(Encyclopedia)Callimachus kəlĭmˈəkəs [key], fl. 2d half of 5th cent. b.c., Greek sculptor from Athens. He was famous as the maker of the gold lamp in the Erechtheum and a seated image of Hera for a temple at P...