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In Greek mythology there were at least 6 Alkaioi [Alcaei, "Alcaeus~es"], the best-known one being the one you're asking about: Amphitryon's dad. (The Athenian poet you've mentioned is one of several famous historical ["real-life"] figures bearing the same name.) The mythical king Alkaios...

All true, but there is an interesting confidence with which he (or whoever actually gave us these lists of characters) delivers this information mixed in with the much more familiar characters whose [hi]stories are supplemented by others sources. (His stuff reads as though he had an expectation...

As usual, no offense is taken, and it was merely a clarification [question] regarding the time-gap between Clement's lifetime and the advent of Islam. Incidentally I quite like the idea - if in fact Clement means to equate Sarakon with Sarakenos - that there's such a double meaning he's applying...

Oh, well, right you are! The Latin writer Hyginus does in fact name Kassiopeia as the wife of Epaphos, although Hyginus is sometimes a confused source himself. But again, you make a good point about Perseus' father-in-law Kepheus was also his own great-great-great-great:eek: !-uncle, while...

I've always taken the "secret place" which Hesiod mentions to be a euphemism for Gaia's reproductive organs. But Apollodoros' Bibliotheka seems to allow for your elaboration/interpretation of events, where he has Hesiod's birth order reversed and the character motivations somewhat different. In...

Also I forgot to include Question 42 for your consideration. You got anything on that one?

Hmm... Never heard that story about Amphitryon never sleeping with Alkmene after Herakles' birth. It sounds kinda... melodramatic, and it also couldn't make sense if Herakles and Iphikles had a younger sister, unless Herakles, Iphikles and Laonome were triplets, which would be a most unusual and...

None taken :cool: Hmmm, interesting... I'd never thought to connect the Telkhines' destruction to any major conflict between the Olympians and the Titans/Gigantes. And incidentally while I was writing up that last post, I was thinking the Telkhines' description does indeed match that of seals...

Yep, that's the one Hey, it looks like someone finally did>> http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades1.html

So thanks a lot for that input :) Also - mostly due to the efforts of another forum member, Caburus, who's helped out with this post quite a bit - of the 43 Questions I've posed so far, I have only 11 with which I'm still not quite satisfied (or currently might not have been answered at all)...

Very, very interesting thoughts, Misa! I think I'd come across this Klymene [Clymene] before (most likely from the same source, i.e. the Greek Mythology Link) but never paid her much attention, so I simply forgot about the character. I looked up the sources cited by Carlos Parada (the Link's...

So> much shorter version of the above response: Apart from a small number of Titans (fewer than those on Zeus’ side), Kronos had several (or maybe a whole lot of) monstrous Gigantes in his army, almost none of whose names we can be sure about, and some of whom may not have been completely loyal...

Having given this some more thought, however, I realise that my list is actually missing characters from what I think is an often misunderstood component of the war, namely the Gigantes [Giants]. Many mythologists are puzzled by what they often interpret to be a confusion of the two greatest...

Writers like Herodotos, and Greek myths in general, seem convinced that Athena was originally a Libyan, Egyptian and Phoenician divinity, Herodotos mentioning the connection you've cited between between her and Neith while Pausanias reports that when Kadmos brought an ancient Canaanite image of...

John Potter, who was Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1700s, wrote a commentary on Lykophronos' poem which is entitled either Alexandra or Kassandra while a more ancient bishop, from Thessalonike, namely Eustathios, in the 1100s wrote commentaries on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. According to...

Regarding the other [unnamed] daughters of Eurymedon, the Egyptian writer Clement of Alexandria says that Zeus had a son named Koron by a certain Leandia [or Leandeia?], daughter of Eurymedon. Is this Eurymedon perhaps the same as the Gigantos, therefore making Leand[e]ia one of Periboia's older...

No, actually, I have pretty much the same understanding as you: that there is indeed some significant connection between there being twelve Titans (six male and six female) and there being twelve Olympians (likewise six male and six female), and that all of the latter were children and...

But Kurvos, you even swore you wouldn't lose your cool again about all this stuff. Why all the fire? I thought we were all going to relax & just discuss differing viewpoints of the topic you've brought up. I really don't think that Myrddin's intention is to rub anything in your face to say that...

From the looks of it, most of the Titans [in existence in the story at the time] actually fought on the side of Zeus and Zeus' siblings while it was a very small number which made up Kronos' army on the opposing side, comprised mostly of Kronos' older brothers and some of his nephews. By my...

No problemo. I get that you feel quite strongly about this stuff, which is kool :) & I completely understand not having much opportunity to discuss this sort of thing in general (coz it's usually people like us in forums like this who think about these things this much :confused:). I was basing...