In Greek mythology, which characters have women's faces and bodies abut the wings and claws of birds ?
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Harpies.\nThey are usually filthy.
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Tethys\n\nTethys is the wife of Oceanus. Together they produced the rivers and the three thousand ocean nymphs.
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"In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα), was a monstrous female character whose gaze could turn people to stone.\n\nSome classical references describe her as one of three Gorgon sisters. Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. The Gorgons and their other sisters the Graiae (and possibly the Hesperides) were daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. Some versions read that Medusa's sisters transformed themselves into monsters in order to protect Medusa.\n\nIn the most well known version of the myth, Medusa originally started out as a beautiful woman. She had sex with — or was raped by — Poseidon in Athena's temple. Poseidon was an arch-rival of Athena's since at one time he vied for patronage of Athens; the soon-to-become Athenians chose Athena's offering of the olive tree over Poseidon's offering of horses or a spring of water.\n\n Perseus beheads MedusaUpon discovery of the desecration of her temple, Athena changed Medusa's form to match that of her sister Gorgons as punishment. Medusa's hair turned into snakes and her glance would turn all living creatures to stone. She was banished beyond the Hyperborean lands.\n\nWhile Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded in her sleep by the hero Perseus with help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sickle, and a mirrored shield. Perseus was either blindfolded or was able to slay Medusa by looking at her reflection in the mirror instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone. In any case, Perseus severed Medusa's head and from her neck came her offspring: Pegasus and Chrysaor. Perseus used Medusa's head to rescue Andromeda, kill Polydectes, and, in some versions, petrify the Titan Atlas. Then he gave it to Athena, who placed it on her shield Aegis.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Medusa in art and legend \n2 Medusa as a sexual image \n3 Medusa in popular culture \n4 External links \n \n\n\n[edit]\nMedusa in art and legend\nMedusa is a well-known mythological icon throughout the world, having been portrayed in artwork as well as popular media over the ages.\n\nExamples of Medusa and the Perseus legend in art form:\n\nPerseus with the Head of Medusa (bronze sculpture) by Benvenuto Cellini (1554) \nPerseus with the Head of Medusa (marble sculpture) by Antonio Canova (1801) \nPerseus] (bronze sculpture) by Salvador Dalí \nMedusa (oil on canvas) by Arnold Böcklin \nMedusa (oil on canvas) by Caravaggio \n[edit]\nMedusa as a sexual image\nSome writers, including Camille Paglia, author of Sexual Personae, have characterized Medusa as a sexual image. For example, in Sexual Personae, Paglia writes, "It is against the mother that men have erected their towering edifice of politics and sky-cult. She is Medusa, in whom Freud sees the castrating and castrated female pubes. But Medusa's snaky hair is also the writhing vegetable growth of nature. Her hideous grimace is men's fear of the laughter of women."\n\n[edit]\nMedusa in popular culture\nMedusa is used as one of the many symbols of the haute couture house Versace. \nMedusa is the name of a Marvel comics fictional character. \n"Medusa" is a song by the thrash metal band Anthrax (band) from their classic 1985 album Spreading the Disease. \nMedusa is the name of the second solo album by Annie Lennox, released in 1995. \n"Medusa" is a song by the American indie rock band Helium, from their 1995 album The Dirt of Luck. \nMedusa's Path is a song of The Prodigy \nMedusa is the name of an inverted, high octane roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. \nMedusa appears as a charcter in numerous computer games, among them Heroes of Might & Magic II, Heroes of Might & Magic III and the Castlevania series. \nMedusa and other Gorgons appears as adversaries in the video game God of War for the Playstation
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Athena (Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη, Athénē; Doric: Ἀσάνα, Asána), in ancient Greek mythology, was the goddess of wisdom, weaving, crafts, and war. Athena's wisdom encompasses the technical knowledge employed in weaving, metal-working, and war, but also includes the cunning intelligence (metis) of such trickster figures as Odysseus.\n\nShe is attended by an owl, wears a goatskin breastplate called the Aegis given to her by her father, Zeus, and is accompanied by the goddess of victory, Nike. She is often shown helmeted and with a shield bearing the Gorgon Medusa's head, a votive gift of Perseus. Athena is an armed warrior goddess, never a child, always a virgin (parthenos); she never had a consort or lover, although once Hephaestus tried and failed. Athena appears in Greek mythology as a helper of many heroes, including Heracles, Jason, and Odysseus.\n\nIn her role as a protector of the city, Athena was worshipped throughout the Greek world as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). She had a special relationship with Athens, as is shown by the etymological connection of the names of the goddess and the city.[1] The Parthenon, on the Acropolis of Athens is her most famous temple.\n\nIn Roman mythology, she was known as Minerva, which originated from her association with the Etruscan goddess Menerva. Quite apart from Minerva, the Romans knew her as Athena as well
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This was there pegan god. People from the past worship different gods and most of these gods are eccentric of animals. Like the sphinx in where it is the combination of a man's head and body of lion with wings of a bird.
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Do you mean "Artemis"? She is the ancient Greek goddess of the moon, hunting, wild animals, women and children, childbirth, chastity and youth. When the Romans adopted her as their own goddess, they renamed her "Dian" or "Diana". Is that what you mean by a "synonym"? She is also sometimes known as "Phoebe".\n\nCheck out the link below...
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Basic Story:\nSome say there are two Eroses, the elder who is the early god, and the other who is the eternally young son of Aphrodite. The "elder" Eros was the cause of the birth of the race of immortal gods and goddesses. The "younger" Eros is the one depicted as a winged boy, the son of Aphrodite, considered to be both the most beautiful and the youngest of the gods. \nBut even in this form, kids grown up. Problems ensue when Eros (called Cupid in this story) falls in love with Psyche. His radiance is such that for her own safety, he insists that she must never look upon his face, and he only visits her at night. At first, she's cool with this, but her sisters and family insist that her husband must be a grotesque and dangerous monster. Finally, to shut them up, one night she lights a lamp and sees his glorious beauty, which doesn't blast her but does make her tremble so hard she shakes the lamp. A few drops of hot oil dribble on her beloved, burning him, and he flies away from her in physical pain compounded by the pain of knowing she doubted him. \nHis mom, Aphrodite, is angry over the injury and over the concealed relationship. While Cupid recovers, Aphrodite hopes to get Psyche out of the way permanently by making life extraordinarily difficult for her daughter-in-law. This takes the form of various potentially deadly tasks such as dropping by to get some beauty lotion from Persephone in the Underworld, and, while you're out, Psyche, could you pick up some bottled water from the River of the Dead (the Styx)? \nBut Cupid eventually recovers, comes to her rescue, and they marry. As is appropriate, the God of Love gets a happy-ever-after. \nSome Major Temple Sites:\nHe had a sanctuary on Mount Helion
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the characters are based on Greek mythology
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Aphrodite - goddess of beauty, one of the twelve Olympians \nApollo - god of poetry, music, the sun, an Olympian \nAres - god of war, an Olympian \nArtemis - goddess of the hunt, later also goddess of moon, an Olympian \nAthena - goddess of wisdom, defensive war, Athens, an Olympian \nKronos - (Cronus/Cronos) god of time, father of the first six Olympians, a Titan \nDemeter - goddess of the harvest, nature, often considered an Olympian \nDionysus - god of wine, took Hestia's place as an Olympian \nEris - goddess of discord \nEros - god of love (Cupid) \nEos - goddess of the dawn \nGaia - primordial goddess of earth, mother of the Titans \nHades - god of the underworld, often considered an Olympian \nHebe - wife of Heracles \nHekate - goddess of witchcraft, crossroads \nHelios - god who drives of the sun \nHephaestus - god of smiths, an Olympian \nHera - chief goddess, goddess of marriage, an Olympian \nHeracles-porter of Olympus \nHermes - messenger of the gods, an Olympian \nHestia - goddess of the hearth, gave up seat at Olympus to Dionysus \nPan - god of shepherds and forests \nPersephone - daughter of Demeter, queen of the dead \nPoseidon - god of the sea, an Olympian \nRhea - mother of the first six Olympians, a Titan \nSelene - goddess who drives the moon \nThanatos - god of death \nUranus - primordial god of the heavens, father of the Titans \nZeus - god of sky and air, chief Olympian \n\nGreek or traditional demigods\nAchilles \nAeacus \nAeneas \nAlexander the Great \nAmphion \nArcas \nBritomartis \nClymene \nDardanus \nThe Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeuces \nEpaphus \nHarmonia \nHelen \nHeracles (also known by the Roman spelling, Hercules) \nIapetus \nIasion \nLacedaemon \nMinos \nMemnon \nPerseus (mythology) \nRhadamanthus \nSarpedon \nTheseus \nTityas
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Here's how it is:\nThe 2 titans that helped the Gods were in charge of making animals. The brothers names were Forethought and Afterthought. Afterthought (Forget Greek names) put tails on snakes, wings on birds and such, so when FOrethought made Humans in the likeness of the Gods, he had nothing to give them! Then they stole fire and gave it to humans. When the Gods found out, they were so darn angry! Then they chained Forethought to a stone on a cliff where an eagle would eat out his liver everyday, and it would grow back at night, her never died. But the Gods made the most attractive and wonderful lady for Afterthought, but there was one fatal flaw: she was curisous. So Afterthought and the lady, named Pandora, married. The Gods, amoung the presents for the wedding, gave a box that they said never to open.\nOne day when Afterthought was out, Pandora was so curisous that she opened the box and let out diease, death, all sorts of bad things and everything that ever plagued hman life for it had stolen fire. But after all the monsters came out (Pandora couldn't close it) she finally closed it, but then a sweet voice said "let me out" and Pandora did so after some convincing, and a small white butterfly came out-hope, so in spite of all trouble there is always hope.
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The wife of Agamemnon who, with the assistance of her lover Aegisthus, murdered him on his return from the Trojan War and was later murdered by her son Orestes.\n\nIn Greek, Κλυταιμνήστρα Klytaimnéstra, means "praiseworthy wooing" because she was believed to have been born of a union between Zeus and Leda, the former having wooed the latter disguised as a swan.\n\nCheers!
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Hermes Trismegistus\n\nmore info here:\n\nhttp://www.hermetics.org/home.html
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Try these:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/\n\nhttp://www.greekmythology.com/\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/\n\nhttp://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/
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In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods) was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros ("sea foam") arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to either Cyprus or Cythera. Hence she is often referred to as Kypris and Cytherea. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus and Dione. \nAfter her birth, Zeus was afraid that the gods would fight over Aphrodite's hand in marriage so he married her off to the smith god Hephaestus, the steadiest of the gods. He could hardly believe his good luck and used all his skills to make the most lavish jewels for her. He made her a girdle of finely wrought gold and wove magic into the filigree work. That was not very wise of him, for when she wore her magic girdle no one could resist her, and she was all too irresistible already. She loved gaiety and glamour and was not at all pleased at being the wife of sooty, hard-working Hephaestus. \n\nAphrodite loved and was loved by many gods and mortals. Among her mortal lovers, the most famous was perhaps Adonis. Some of her sons are Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios and Aeneas (with her Trojan lover Anchises). She is accompanied by the Graces. \n\nHer festival is the Aphrodisiac which was celebrated in various centers of Greece and especially in Athens and Corinth. Her priestesses were not prostitutes but women who represented the goddess and sexual intercourse with them was considered just one of the methods of worship. Aphrodite was originally an old-Asian goddess, similar to the Mesopotamian Ishtar and the Syro-Palestinian goddess Ashtart. Her attributes are a.o. the dolphin, the dove, the swan, the pomegranate and the lime tree. \n\nIn Roman mythology Venus is the goddess of love and beauty.
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ATE\n\nThe Greek personification of infatuation, the rash foolishness of blind impulse, usually caused by guilt and leading to retribution. The goddess of discord and mischief, she tempted man to do evil, and then lead him to ruin. She once even managed to entrap Zeus, but he hurled her down from the Olympus. Now she wanders the earth, as a kind of avenging spirit, but still working her mischief among mankind. Her sisters, the Litai, follow her and repair the damage she has wrought to mortals.
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Crete. (Greek mythology)
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Zeus - god-father of the Olympian gods/goddesses eg Apollo, Artemis etc\nHades - brother of Zeus and god of the Underworld\n\n"In Greek mythology, Hades (the "unseen"), the god of the underworld, was a son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as two younger brothers, Poseidon and Zeus: together they accounted for half of the Olympian gods"