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Ino
Definition by Liana Miate

Ino

Ino is a princess of Thebes and the wife of King Athamas of Boeotia in Greek mythology. She helped to raise Dionysos, the god of wine, but the most famous myth associated with her is her descent into madness and the tragic fate of her family...
Athamas Kills the Son of Ino by Gaetano Gandolfi
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Athamas Kills the Son of Ino by Gaetano Gandolfi

Athamas Kills the Son of Ino, oil on canvas by Gaetano Gandolfi, 1801, Villa Marana, Bologna.
Mosaic Fragment of Ino
Image by Didier Descouens

Mosaic Fragment of Ino

Mosaic fragment: Ino (Dotô), discovered in a Roman villa in Saint-Rustice in 1833, 4th or 5th century, Saint-Raymon Museum, Toulouse.
Golden Fleece
Definition by Kelly Macquire

Golden Fleece

The golden fleece is the fleece of a flying, winged ram named Crius Chrysomallos, or 'Golden-fleeced Ram', in Greek mythology. It is best known from the story of Jason and the Argonauts, who were sent by Pelias, the ruler of Iolcos, to retrieve...
Bacchus
Definition by Donald L. Wasson

Bacchus

Bacchus was the god of wine and revelry in Roman mythology. Considered the most versatile and elusive of the gods, with a Greek equivalent in Dionysus, Bacchus is frequently associated with the Roman god of wine Liber Pater. He brought joy...
Cadmus
Definition by Liana Miate

Cadmus

Cadmus is a Phoenician-born prince and the founder and king of Thebes in Boeotia in Greek mythology. He travelled to Greece from his home in Tyre in search of his sister Europa who had been kidnapped by Zeus. His rescue mission was abandoned...
Jason & the Argonauts
Article by Mark Cartwright

Jason & the Argonauts

The pan-Hellenic mythological hero Jason was famed for his expedition with the Argonauts - as the sailors on their ship the Argo were known - in search of the Golden Fleece in Kolchis on the Black Sea, one of the most popular and enduring...
Pasiphaë
Definition by Liana Miate

Pasiphaë

Pasiphaë ("all-shining") is the wife of King Minos of Crete and the mother of the fearsome Minotaur (half-bull, half-man creature) in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the sun god Helios and Perse, an Oceanid. Like her sister Circe...
Athamas Taken by the Furies
Image by Arcangelo Michele Migliarini

Athamas Taken by the Furies

Athamas Taken by the Furies, painting by Arcangelo Michele Migliarini, 1801. Accademia di San Luca, Rome.
Leucothea by Jean Jules Allasseur
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Leucothea by Jean Jules Allasseur

Leucothea (1862), by Jean Jules Allasseur. South façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre Palace, Paris.
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