Philotes
Character · slug: philotes
Also: Geras, Eris, Deceit, Affection, intimacy, Strife, Discord, bad, good, Zeus, or Dionysus, or Hera, Phyxios
- Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
- Nemesis: Daughter of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / divine retribution · Hesiodic — Nemesis as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
- Apate: Deceit, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified deceit · Hesiodic — Apate (Deceit) among Nyx’s children
- Philotes: Affection, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified affection · Hesiodic — Philotes (Affection / sexual love) among Nyx’s children
- Eris: Discord, Child of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Strife · Hesiodic — Eris (Strife) as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
- Two Kinds of Eris (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / personified Strife · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* distinction of good and bad Eris
- The Days of Zeus (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic calendar / sacred days · Hesiodic — lucky and unlucky days of the month as Zeus’s ordinance
- Phobos and Deimos: Children of Ares
Olympian gods — Ares / personified war-terrors · Hesiodic / Homeric — Fear and Terror as Ares’s sons and attendants
- Visit to the Graeae and the Nymphs
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (shared eye and tooth; path to the nymphs)
- Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
- Judgment of Paris: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
- Agamemnon’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Agamemnon’s morning rampage until wounded
- The Phaeacian Ship Turned to Stone (*Odyssey* 13)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians / Poseidon’s wrath · Homeric — Poseidon petrifies the returning escort ship; Scheria’s future sealed
- Teucer Shoots from Behind Ajax’s Shield (*Iliad*)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Teucer’s archery · Homeric — bastard son of Telamon; archer paired with Ajax’s tower-shield
- The Achaeans Build the Wall before the Ships (*Iliad* 7)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 7 aftermath · Homeric — night after Ajax–Hector duel; wall and ditch built without hecatombs
- Teichomachy: Fighting at the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 12 · Homeric — Trojans assault the wall; Sarpedon and Hector breach
- Poseidon and Apollo Destroy the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / wall aftermath aetiology · Homeric — after Troy’s fall the gods wash away the wall (prolepsis in Book 12)
- Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
- Automedon and Achilles’ Immortal Horses (*Iliad* 17)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Automedon’s aristeia with Xanthus and Balios after Patroclus falls
- Halitherses Prophesies in the Ithacan Assembly (*Odyssey* 2)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Ithacan politics · Homeric — Halitherses reads the bird-omen; Eurymachus scorns him
- Ajax Defends the Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / teichomachy aftermath / ships in peril · Homeric — Telamonian Ajax as last bulwark before Patroclus enters
- Poseidon as Calchas Rallies the Ajaxes (*Iliad* 13)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 / divine aid to the Achaeans · Homeric — Poseidon’s disguised encouragement at the ships
- Hector’s Prayer for Astyanax (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector–Andromache farewell · Homeric — baby fright at the helmet; prayer to Zeus
- Achilles Consoles Priam with Niobe (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Ransom of Hector · Homeric — Niobe’s grief and return to food as consolation paradeigma
- Hera Bribes Hypnos to Lull Zeus (*Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Dios apate prelude · Homeric — Sleep’s fear of Zeus; promise of Pasithea; lull on Ida
- Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
- Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
- Agamemnon Tests the Army (*Diapeira*, *Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 2 assembly · Homeric — false dream aftermath; Agamemnon’s test; flight to the ships; Odysseus restores order
- Psychostasia: Zeus Weighs Achilles and Memnon
Trojan — Aethiopis / Aeschylean tragedy / Memnon cycle · Aeschylean *Psychostasia* (lost) + cyclic *Aethiopis* notices — Zeus scales the fates of Achilles and Memnon
- The Memnonides: Birds from Memnon’s Pyre
Trojan — Memnon aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Ovid-labeled Roman — cinders become fighting birds; annual memorial
- Adonis: Aphrodite and the Boar
Local and lesser — Cypriot / Levantine cult myth in Greek dress · Apollodorean (birth from Myrrha/Smyrna; Aphrodite; Persephone; boar death); Bion’s *Lament*
- Endymion and Selene
Local and lesser — Elian / Carian sleep myth · Apollodorean / Pausanian (eternal sleep; Selene’s visits); Hesiodic genealogy of Endymion as Elian king
- Baucis and Philemon
Local and lesser — Phrygian hospitality · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Phrygian theoxeny; no full classical Greek verse narrative survives
- Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
- Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
- Eos and Tithonus
Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
- The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview
- Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
- Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
- Tityos: Assault on Leto and the Vultures
Local and lesser — underworld punishment / Letoids · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean (birth; assault; death by Apollo and Artemis)
- Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)
- Empusa and the Lamiae
Local and lesser — daimonic / Hecate’s train; folk-bogey in classical comedy and philosophy · Aristophanic / Philostratean / Diodoran (Empusa; Lamia as child-devouring bogey; Hecate connection)
- Scylla and Charybdis: Origin and Metamorphosis
Local and lesser — Sicilian strait aetiology (separate from *Odyssey* 12 encounter) · Ovidian Roman transmission of Circe–Glaucus–Scylla metamorphosis; Greek notices of Charybdis as daughter of Poseidon and Gaia
- Thamyris Challenges the Muses
Local and lesser — Thracian / poetic hybris · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) / Apollodorean / Pausanian
- Icarius and Erigone: Dionysus’s Gift of Wine
Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac aetiology · Apollodorean / Eratosthenic / Attic handbook (Icarius; first wine; Erigone; Maera; catasterism)
- Tiresias: Snakes, Gender Change, Blindness, and Prophecy
Local and lesser — Theban seer / gender and sight · Apollodorean (double sex; Hera–Zeus quarrel; blindness; prophetic gift)
- Maera the Dog: Discovery, Death, and Catasterism
Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean Icarius frame)
- Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)
- Callisto Catasterism: Arctos (Ursa Major)
Local and lesser — Arcadian / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Pausanian Arcadian frame)
- The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)
- The Hyades
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs / Dionysiac nurses · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook
- Hesperides as Atlas’s Daughters (Genealogy)
Local and lesser — Atlasid genealogy / western nymphs · Hesiodic (Night-born) vs. mythographic Atlasid
- The Heliades: Amber Tears
Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices
- Cycnus of Liguria Mourns Phaethon (Swan; Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Phaethon aftermath / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Ligurian Cycnus’s swan change — distinct from Poseidon’s Cycnus and from Ares’s Cycnus
- Phoroneus of Argos: First Man and First City
Local and lesser — Argive foundation / culture-hero · Pausanian / Apollodorean / Acusilaan Argive
- Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Plain
Local and lesser — eschatology / afterlife geography · Hesiodic *Works and Days* + Pindaric / Homeric Elysium notices
- Orion’s Death and the Scorpion (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook — scorpion sent by Earth or Artemis
- Aquila: The Eagle of Ganymede (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus’s eagle · Catasterismic handbook — eagle that bore Ganymede (or Zeus’s bird) placed among the stars
- Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars
- Asclepius as Ophiuchus (Serpent-Bearer)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Asclepius · Catasterismic handbook — Asclepius placed as Ophiuchus with the serpent
- Virgo: Astraea / Dike among the Stars
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Justice departing the earth · Catasterismic / Hesiodic–Aratean — maiden Justice as Virgo
- Cancer: The Crab of the Lernaean Hydra (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Heracles’s Second Labor · Catasterismic handbook — crab sent by Hera, placed as Cancer
- Leo: The Nemean Lion among the Stars (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Heracles’s First Labor · Catasterismic handbook — Nemean lion as Leo
- Gemini: The Dioscuri among the Stars (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Spartan twins · Catasterismic / Homeric–Pindaric — Castor and Polydeuces as Gemini
- Aries: The Golden Ram of Phrixus (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Argonautic prelude · Catasterismic handbook — Nephele’s ram as Aries
- Taurus: Zeus’s Bull and Europa (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus and Europa · Catasterismic handbook — bull of Europa (or Io) as Taurus
- Scorpius: The Scorpion among the Stars (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion cycle · Catasterismic handbook — scorpion that killed Orion as Scorpius
- Sagittarius: Crotus or Chiron the Archer (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / centaur-archer · Catasterismic handbook — Crotus (Musaean) or Chiron as Sagittarius
- Capricorn: Aegipan / Pan in the Typhonomachy (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Typhoeus aftermath · Catasterismic handbook — goat-fish Aegipan (Pan) as Capricorn
- Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius
- Pisces: Aphrodite and Eros as Fishes (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Aphrodite · Catasterismic handbook — Aphrodite and Eros (or Syrian fish) as Pisces
- Inachus: River-King of Argos
Local and lesser — Argive origins / river eponym · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Inachus as first king or river; father of Io
- The Idaean Dactyls
Local and lesser — Cretan / Phrygian metalworkers / Rhea’s attendants · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / Pausanian / Strabo — Dactyls as first ironworkers and mystic helpers
- The Palici of Sicily
Local and lesser — Sicilian twin gods / crater lakes / oath cult · Aeschylean *Aetnaeae* notices + Macrobian antiquarian synthesis — twin sons of Zeus and Thalia (or Aetna); boiling lakes; sanctuary of oaths