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Dionysia (plant) Dionysia is a genus containing 49 species of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. They are small, cushion-forming alpines native to mountains in central Asia. They are usually evergreen perennials with felted leaves, covered with bright yellow or pink, five-petalled flowers in spring. They are often difficult to cultivate if the correct conditions are not provided.
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Hesperaloe Hesperaloe (false yucca) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. It contains perennial yucca-like plants with long, narrow leaves produced in a basal rosette and flowers borne on long panicles or racemes. The species are native to the arid parts of Texas in the United States and Mexico and are sometimes cultivated as xerophytic ornamental plants.
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Nysiads In Greek Mythology, the Nysiads or Nysiades (Νυσιάδες) were Okeanid nymphs of mythical Mount Nysa. Zeus entrusted the infant god Dionysus to their care, and the Nysiads raised him with the assistance of the old satyr-god Seilenos. When Dionysus was grown the Nysiads joined his company as the first of the Bakkhantes.
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Astypalaea In Greek mythology, Astypalaea (] ) was the daughter of Phoenix (son of Agenor) and Perimede, daughter of Oeneus thus she was the sister of Europa. She was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her, and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos, and Eurypylos, King of Kos.
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Enorches In Greek mythology, Enorches ("Enorchês") was a son of Thyestes by his sister Daeta. He was born out of an egg and built a temple to Dionysus, who was hence called "Dionysus Enorches", though "Enorches" may also describe the god as the dancer.
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Abaris the Hyperborean Abaris the Hyperborean (Greek: Ἄβαρις Ὑπερβόρειος , "Abaris Hyperboreios"), son of Seuthes, was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks. He was supposed to have learned his skills in his homeland of Hyperborea, which he fled during a plague. He was said to be endowed with the gift of prophecy, and by this as well as by his Scythian dress and simplicity and honesty he created great sensation in Greece, and was held in high esteem.
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Dionysius I of Syracuse Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder (Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Πρεσβύτερος ; c. 432367 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, in what is now Sicily, southern Italy. He conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy, opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies. He was regarded by the ancients as an example of the worst kind of despot—cruel, suspicious and vindictive.
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Hegemon of Thasos Hegemon of Thasos (Greek: Ἡγήμων ό Θάσιος ) was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War. According to Aristotle ("Poetics", ii. 5) he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous. When the news of the disastrous defeat of the Sicilian Expedition reached Athens, his parody of the "Gigantomachia" was being performed: it is said that the audience were so amused by it that, instead of leaving to show their grief, they remained in their seats. He was also the author of a comedy called "Philinne" (Philine), written in the manner of Eupolis and Cratinus, in which he attacked a well-known courtesan. Athenaeus (p. 698), who preserves some parodic hexameters of his, relates other anecdotes concerning him (pp. 5, 108, 407).
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Hedone Hedone was the personification and goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight. Hedone, also known as Voluptas in Roman mythology, is the daughter of the Greek gods Eros (Cupid) and Psyche. She was associated more specifically with sensual pleasure. Her opposites were the Algos, personifications of pain.
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Telete In Greek mythology, Telete was the daughter of Dionysus and Nicaea.
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Saulė Saulė (Lithuanian: "Saulė" , Latvian: "Saule" ) is a solar goddess, the common Baltic solar deity in the Lithuanian and Latvian mythologies. The noun "Saulė"/"Saule" in the Lithuanian and Latvian languages is also the conventional name for the Sun and originates from the Proto-Baltic name *"Sauliā" > *"Saulē".
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Thrinacia Thrinakia (Ancient Greek: Θρινακία , ] ), also called Trinacria or Tarnationus, is the island home of Helios's cattle in Book XII of Homer's "Odyssey", guarded by Helios' eldest daughter, Lampetia. It is sometimes said to have been Sicily, since the name "Thrinacia" could be taken to imply a connection to the number three (Greek "treis, tria" sounds vaguely similar to Thri-) and Sicily has three corners (cf. Trinacria, an alternate name for Sicily). However, the island is also associated with Malta, and that Sicily is often identified with the episode of the Cyclopes only serves to underscore the shaky footing any geographer is on when trying to identify Homer's locations.
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Thalia (nymph) In Greek mythology, Thalia (Greek: Θάλεια "Tháleia" or Θάλια "Thália", "the Joyous, the Flourishing", from θάλλειν / thállein, "to flourish, to be green") is a nymph, the child of Hephaestus. She is also given as an anthropomorphic secondary deity of plant life and shoots, possibly as the culmination of the transmission of knowledge on volcanic ash's use as a fertiliser, characteristic of ancient viticulture in volcanic soils such as those of the island of Santorini.
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Hecaton In Greek mythology, Hecaton was the father of Calyce, who was seduced by the god Poseidon and bore him a son named Cycnus. This character Hecaton (meaning "hundred") is otherwise unknown, but the name may be connected with the Hecatonnesoi ("hundred islands"), in the Adramyttian Gulf.
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Chryseis In Greek mythology, Chryseis ( , Ancient Greek: Χρυσηΐς, "Khrysēís" , ] ) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the "Iliad", means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome (Ἀστυνόμη ).
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Edonus In Greek mythology, Edonus (Ancient Greek: Ἠδωνός ) was the ancestor of the Edonians in Thrace and Thracian Macedonia. He was the son of Ares (god of war) and Calliope (muse of epic poetry). The names "Edonus, Edonian, Edonic" is therefore used also in the sense of "Thracian," and as Thrace was one of the principal seats of the worship of Dionysus, it further signifies "Dionysiac" or " Bacchantic."
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Apalochlamys Apalochlamys is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. The sole species in the genus is Apalochlamys spectabilis, commonly known as showy cassinia or fireweed.
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Hesperumia Hesperumia is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
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Melampus In Greek mythology, Melampus (Ancient Greek: Μελάμπους , "Melampous"), was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand the language of animals. A number of pseudepigraphal works of divination were circulated in Classical and Hellenistic times under the name Melampus. According to Herodotus and Pausanias (vi.17.6), on the authority of Hesiod, his father was Amythaon, whose name implies the "ineffable" or "unspeakably great"; Thus Melampus and his heirs were "Amythaides" of the "House of Amythaon".
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Dione (Titaness) Dione ( ; Greek: Διώνη , "Diōnē") was an ancient Greek goddess, an oracular Titaness primarily known from Book V of Homer's "Iliad", where she tends to the wounds suffered by her daughter Aphrodite. One source describes her as an ancient wife of Zeus.
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Hydriastele Hydriastele is a diverse and widespread genus of flowering plant in the palm family found throughout Australia and New Zealand, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia. It consisted of just nine species until 2004, when molecular research, supported by morphologic similarities, led taxonomists to include the members of the Gulubia, Gronophyllum, and Siphokentia genera. 48 species are now recognized, of which 38 are new combinations, two are new names and one is a new species. It is named in Greek, combining "hydriad", a water nymph in mythology, and "column".
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Cymopoleia In Greek mythology, Cymopolea or Kymopoleia (Κυμοπόλεια) was a daughter of Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas and earthquakes, and the wife of Briareos one of the three Hecatoncheires.