Psamathe

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                                    In Greek mythology, Psamathe was described as the goddess of (beach) sand, one of Naieid nymph, daughter of  Nereus and Doris. Psamathe was the wife of Proteus, the old seal-herder of Poseidon. She bore him, Theoclymenus, a mortal son and Eidothea, a sea-nymph daughter.

Psamathe

                        Aeacus, the king of island Aegina, fell in love with Psamathe and he tried to seduce her on the beach. Psamathe  tried to escape his grasp by transforming herself into a seal, but he refused to give up. So she let him had intercourse with her and gave birth to Phocus.
                
                          Phocus was the favorite of his father, which the jealousy of his half-brothers Peleus and Telamon. The pair conspired to murder him and were exiled from the island. In other version Phocus was killed accidentally by Peleus and Telamon.  Psamathe was aggrieved and sent a giant wolf to harass the flocks of Peleus. However, through the advise of Thetis, Peleus wife and the sister of Psamathe, he managed to assuage the goddess with sacrifices.   



          Psamathe2
                                        In Greek mythology, Psamathe was described as the daughter of Crotopus, king of Argos.  Apollo, the god of music, fell in love with Psamathe, the beautiful princess of Argos. Apollo secretly came into Psamathe bed chamber and had  intercourse with her.  She became the mother of Linus by Apollo. Fearing her father she gave Linus to shepherds to be raised. 

Psamathe

                                 Later Psamathe was killed by her father, who would not believe that she had sexual intercourse with a god rather than a mortal. Apollo avenged Psamathe murder by sending a child-killing plague to Argos, which would not cease until the Argives (people of Argos), at the god's command, paid honors to Psamathe and Linus.
                                                 In other version, the baby Linus was torn apart by the king's sheepdogs upon being exposed and Apollo sent Poene, the personification of punishment, upon the city. Poene would steal children from their mothers until Coroebus killed her.    

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Endeis

In Greek mythology, Endeis was described as the queen of island Aegina and wife of Aeacus (son of Zeus and Aegina).  Endeis was the daughter of  Centaur Chiron and the nymph Chariclo and in other version, she was described as the daughter of the Megarian warlord Sciron.

Endeis

                                   In some versions,  It was described that Endeis was jealous of her stepson Phocus (son of Aeacus and nereid Psamathe) and induced her sons Peleus and Telamon to murder the boy. In some versions, it was described that Telamon and Peleus were jealous of Phocus because he excelled at athletic sports. In any case they drew lots and Telamon was chosen to murder Phocus, his half brother. This was done in a ruse at the pentathlon which they convinced Phocus to participate in. In the sport, Telamon threw a discus under the pretense of participating in the competition. The projectile hit its target, accidentally killing Phocus. Both Telamon and Peleus hid the body of Phocus, but it was soon discovered. For this Aeacus exiled them both from Aegina.

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Caenis / Caeneus

Caenis......

In Greek mythology, Caenis was described as the daughter of  Elatus, a Lapith leader and Hippea. In other version, Caenis was described as the daughter of Atrax, the son of the river god Peneus and Bura. 
    

Poseidon and Caenis

     Sea god Poseidon was attracted towards Caenis stunning beauty and lusted after her. Caenis tried to escape Poseidon embraces, but Poseidon forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. Afterwards Poseidon promised to grant her anything she wished. Caenis wished to become a man, so that nothing like this could ever happen to her again.

Poseidon and Caenis

        
                                         Poseidon granted her wish, and in addition, made her/him invulnerable to all weapons.  Caenis then changed his name to Caeneus and became a warrior, traveling all over Thessaly.   Caeneus was among the company of heroes that hunt the Calydomia Boar.

Caeneus............

                                       At the wedding of Pirithous, when fighting broke out between the Lapiths and the Centaurs, Caeneus slew many of the Centaurs but remained unharmed himself.In revenge for this, a mob of centaurs piled pine-tree trunks and stones upon him, since he was immune to weapons.

Centaurs and Caeneus................battle...

 The Centaur could not kill him, and he was crushed or smothered beneath the great weight. After Caeneus death, he fall directly into Tartarus. Other version described that he flew away from the pile of tree trunks as a golden-winged bird.

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Aeacus

                                                                                      In Greek mythology, Aeacus was described as the king of island Aegina and the son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus. Aeacus was born on the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been carried by Zeus it the guise of eagle. Latter the island was named Aegina. Aeacus was alone in the island, and since a territory without human beings was worthless for any man living in it, to put an end to that solitude Zeus turned the ants of the island into men. And when human beings were added to the land, Aeacus could become king.

Aeacus and Myrmidons

                                                In other version, island Aegina was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus,but jealous Hera, punished the island that had been named after her husband's mistress (Aegina). So a plague fell upon Aegina, attacking first the animals and then the human beings. This epidemic had such proportions that almost no one was left alive, and the dead bodies were so many that no one cared to bury them. It was then that Aeacus prayed to Zeus under an oak. Then the ants turned into men, first in Aeacus' dream that night, but later in reality, for on the following day he could see them with his waking eyes as they came greeting him as king. And because of his prayer and his dream he called them Myrmidons, deriving this name from the word "ant".  

                 Aeacus married first Endeis, and had by her two sons,  Peleus and Telamon . Then Aeacus married the Nereid Psamathe, who turned herself into a seal in an attempt to avoid him, and had by her a son Phocus.  During his rule, Aeacus fortified Aegina, making the island difficult to approach, surrounding it by sunken rocks and reefs. Aeacus became famous for his wisdom, even Zeus would listen to him alone. Aeacus was known for settling disputes even for the gods.

                                                   In some versions,  Apollo and Poseidon took Aeacus as their assistant in building the walls of Troy. When the work was completed, three dragons immediately attacked the city. The two that attacked Poseidon's and Apollo's walls fell down dead almost after they banged into the fortifications, but the third one was able to break through Aeacus' wall and get into the city.  When Apollo had seen this, he predicted that it would be through the hands of a descendant of Aeacus that Troy would be destroyed.
                                         In some versions, after Aeacus death,  he became (along with the Rhadamanthus and Minos) one of the three judges in underworld.

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Calydonian Boar..............The hunt

 In Greek mythology, Calydonian Boar was described as the gigantic boar sent by goddess Artemis to ravage the countryside of Calydon to punish King Oineus for neglecting her in the offering of the first fruits to the gods.

Artemis and Calydonian Boar.....

                  In Greek legend, Oeneus, the king of Calydon, held annual harvest sacrifices to the gods on the sacred hill.One year the king forgot to include goddess Artemis in his offerings and in revenge Artemis sent a savage boar which laid waste to the countryside. The king summoned heroes from throughout Greece to hunt down the beast.

                                 Among those who responded were many famous heroes, including some of the Argonauts, Oeneus' own son Meleager, and, one woman, the huntress Atalanta. In some version, it was described that King Oineus' son Meleager organizes a band of heroes to hunt the boar, including the huntress Atalanta.

Calydonian Boar hunt...

                                 
                         In some versions, it was described that goddess Artemis had sent the young huntress because she knew her presence would be a source of division. Many of the men were angry that a woman was joining them, but Meleager, though married, lusted for Atalanta, and so he persuaded them to include her. The hunt itself was a bloody affair, with several men being killed before anyone could even wound the boar.

Meleager Presents Atalanta the head of the Calydonian Boar

                                               Finally, Atalanta injured the beast with an arrow, and then Meleager killed it with his spear. Afterwards, Meleager tried to award the boar's pelt to Atalanta, since he was in love with her and since she had been the first to draw blood in the hunt. However, Meleager's uncles, Plexippus and Toxeus, objected to awarding the prize to a woman, and in the ensuing argument Meleager killed them. Meleager's mother, Althaea, then arranged Meleager's own death in revenge for the deaths of her brothers.

Calydonian Boar Hunters

Acastus-a splendid javelin- thrower,
 Admetus-the son of Pheres, from Pherae
Alcon-one of three sons of Hippocoon or Ares from Amykles in Thrace
Amphiaraus-the son of Oicles, from Argos,
 Ancaeus-from Parrhasia, son of Lycurgus, killed by the boar.
Asclepius  -son of Apollo
Atalanta- also called Tegeaea, the daughter of Skoineus, from Arcadia
Caeneus-son of Elatus,
The Dioscuri- Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus and Leda, from Lacedaemon
Cepheus - from Arcadia
Cteatus - son of Actor.
Deucalion - son of Minos
Dryas of Calydon- son of Ares 
Echion one of the Argonauts
Epochus
Euphemus - son of Poseidon
Eurypylus
Eurytion - accidentally run through with the javelin of Peleus
Eurytus - son of Hermes
Hippasus - son of Eurytus
Hippothous
Hyleus - killed by the boar
Jason  - Aeson’s son, from Iolkos
Idas and Lynceus - sons of Aphareus, from Messene
Iolaus - son of Iphicles, nephew of Heracles
Iphicles - the twin of Heracles, 
Kometes and Prothous - the sons of Thestios, Meleager's uncles
Laertes - son of Arcesius, 
Lelex - of Naryx in Locria
Leucippus - one of three sons of Hippocoon or Ares from Amykles in Thrace
Lynceus and Idas
Meleager - son of Oeneus
Mopsus - son of Ampycus
Nestor
Panopeus
Peleus - son of Aiakos
Phoenix - son of Amyntor
Phyleus - from Elis
Pirithous - son of Ixion, from Larissa, the friend of Theseus
Plexippus  -brother of Toxeus, slain by Meleager
Polydeuces
Prothous and Kometes - the sons of Thestios, Meleager's uncles
Telamon - son of Aeacus
Theseus -of Athens  AND
Toxeus

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