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Juno and her rivals Io & Callisto
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Acraea
Acraea (Akraia). A daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Euboea and Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera. A hill Acraea opposite the temple of Hera near Mycenae derived its name from her. (Paus. ii. 17.2)
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Echo
Echo. A daughter of Aer and Gaea, who chiefly resided in the vicinity
of the Cephissus. She was once one of Here's attendants; but, having offended
that goddess by her deception, she was deprived, in a great measure, by her of
the power of speech. Here declared that in future she should have but little use
of her tongue, and immediately she lost all power of doing any more, than to repeat
the sounds which she heard. Echo happening to see the beautiful youth Narcissus,
became deeply enamoured of him. But, her love being slighted, she pined away till
nothing remained of her but her voice and bones. The former still exists, the
latter were converted into stone.
| This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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Echo. Oread (mountain nymph) who lived at Mount
Parnassus and by accident caught Zeus with another nymph. When asked by Hera
if she had seen him, Echo was too afraid to betray Zeus, and lied, saying she
had not. When Hera realized the nymph had lied to her, she cursed Echo by making
her capable only to repeat what others said.
Pan loved Echo, but in vain. The nymph fell desperately in love with
Narcissus who only loved himself, and her distress made her wither away, leaving
only her voice.
| This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below. |
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Echo, an Oreade, who when Zeus was playing with the nymphs, used to keep Hera at a distance by incessantly talking to her. In this manner Hera was not able to detect her faithless husband, and the nymphs had time to escape. Hera, however, found out the deception, and she punished Echo by changing her into an echo, that is, a being with no control over its tongue, which is neither able to speak before anybody else has spoken, nor to be silent when somebody else has spoken. Echo in this state fell desperately in love with Narcissus, but as her love was not returned, she pined away in grief, so that in the end there remained of her nothing but her voice. (Ov. Met. iii. 365--401.) There were in Greece certain porticoes, called the Porticoes of Echo, on account of the echo which was heard there; thus, there was one stoa at Hermione with a threefold, and one at Olympia with a sevenfold echo. (Pans. ii. 35. § 6, v. 21. § 7.) Compare Wiesler, Die Nymphe Echo : eine kunstmythologische Abhandlung, Gottingen, 1844
| This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited June 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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