In what European region did Rhoeo in Greek mythology live and do the Aphyllanthes grow?
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Aphyllanthes Aphyllanthes is a genus of flowering plants with only one species, Aphyllanthes monspeliensis, endemic to the western Mediterranean region. It is the only genus in the Aphyllanthoideae, a subfamily of the family Asparagaceae. Aphyllanthoideae was formerly treated as a separate family, Aphyllanthaceae.
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Rhoeo In Greek mythology, Rhoeo ( ; Ancient Greek: Ῥοιώ ) was a daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis, sister to Parthenos and Molpadia or Hemithea. Parthenius relates that she once experienced a great jealosy of her sister Hemithea when Staphylus arranged for the latter to spend a night with Lyrcus, his guest, whom both Hemithea and Rhoeo fell in love with.
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Prosymnus Prosymnus or Polymnus (Greek: Πρόσυμνος/Πόλυμνος ), in Greek mythology, was a shepherd living near the reputedly bottomless Alcyonian Lake, hazardous to swimmers, which lay in the Argolid, on the coast of the Gulf of Argos, near the prehistoric site of Lerna.
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Amphigeneia Amphigeneia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιγένεια ) was a city in ancient Greece. It was located in either Messenia or in Triphylia. According to Strabo it was situated at the river Hypsoeis, and there was a sanctuary of Leto in the city. According to Homer, it belonged to Nestor of Pylos. Pausanias visited the area but does not mention the city, which might indicate that it had been abandoned before the 2nd century AD. The ancient Eleans believed that Apollo was born here. The location of the ancient city is unknown.
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Acanthus Acanthus (plural: "acanthus", rarely "acanthuses" in English, or "acanthi" in Latin), in its feminine form acantha (plura: "acanthae"), is the Latinised form of the ancient Greek word acanthos or akanthos, referring to the "Acanthus" plant. It can also be used as the prefix acantho-, meaning "thorny". It may refer to:
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Amathusia Amathusia or Amathuntia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμαθουσία or Ἀμαθουντία ) was in Greek mythology a toponymic epithet of the goddess Aphrodite, which is derived from the city of Amathus in Cyprus, one of the most ancient seats of her worship. Her temple there remained famous in Roman times.
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Fortunate Isles The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed (Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι , "makárôn nêsoi") were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology. The related idea of Brasil and other islands in Celtic mythology are sometimes conflated with the Greek sense of islands in the western Mediterranean: Sicily, the Aeolian Islands, the Aegadian Islands or other smaller islands of Sicily. Later on the islands were said to lie in the Western Ocean near the encircling River Oceanus; Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde, Bermuda, and the Lesser Antilles have sometimes been cited as possible matches.
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Ancient Thessaly Thessaly or Thessalia (Attic Greek: Θεσσαλία , "Thessalía" Aeolic Greek (Thessalian): Πετθαλία , "Petthalia") was one of the traditional regions of Ancient Greece. During the Mycenaean period, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, a name that continued to be used for one of the major tribes of Greece, the Aeolians, and their dialect of Greek, Aeolic.
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Argyra (mythology) In Greek mythology, Argyra ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἀργυρᾶ ) was one of the Naiads, a nymph who resided in a well. There was a city in ancient Achaea, also named Argyra, that was the site of a spring. According to legend, the nymph Argyra was in love with a shepherd named Selemnus, but when he aged she no longer loved him. When he died of grief, the goddess Aphrodite changed him into a river. The legend says that a forsaken lover who bathes in this river will forget their pain.
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Thyraion Thyraion (Ancient Greek: Θυραῖον , Latin: "Thyraeum" ) was a city in Arcadia, ancient Greece. It was already ruined in the 2nd century AD, when it was visited by Pausanias. It was near Hypsous (present Stemnitsa), Zoetia and Paroria. Thyraion was founded by Thyraeus, a son of Lycaon. The location of Thyraion has been identified with that of the present village Pavlia, north of Megalopoli.
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Peloponnese (region) The Peloponnese region (Greek: Περιφέρεια Πελοποννήσου ) is a region in southern Greece. It borders the West Greece region to the north and Attica to the north-east. The region has an area of about 15490 km2 . It covers most of the Peloponnese peninsula, except for the northwestern subregions of Achaea and Elis which belong to West Greece and a small portion of the Argolid peninsula that is part of Attica.
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Selloi The Selloi were inhabitants of Epirus in ancient Greece, in a region between Dodona — site of the oldest reported oracle — and the Achelous river; Aristotle named the area ancient Hellas. A group who were formerly called Graeci ("Graikoi") and later Hellenes lived there as well. According to Homer, they were priests of the Dodonian Zeus. and the word probably means "sacrificers" (compare Gothic "saljan", "present, sacrifice").
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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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Scots pine Scots pine ("Pinus sylvestris" L.) is a species of pine that is native to Eurasia, ranging from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains and Anatolia, and north to well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. In the north of its range, it occurs from sea level to 1,000 m , while in the south of its range it is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 1200 – altitude. It is readily identified by its combination of fairly short, blue-green leaves and orange-red bark.
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Thynia In the ancient world, Thynia ( , Greek: Θυνία ) was a region of Europe along the northern coast of the Propontis, opposite Bithynia on the Asian side. It was occupied by the Thyni, a Thracian people who came from Thrace. Note that in the Middle Ages, Mesothynia ("middle Thynia") was the peninsula of modern Kocaeli.
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Barony of Vostitsa The Barony of Vostitsa was a medieval Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea, located in the northern coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, centred on the town of Vostitsa (Greek: Βοστίτζα ; French: "La Vostice" ; Italian: "Lagostica" ; modern Aigio).
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Dyspontium Dyspontium (Ancient Greek: Δυσπόντιον ) was an ancient town in Pisatis. It was situated in the plain between Elis and Olympia, north of the river Alpheus and not far from the sea. It has been identified with the modern village Skafidia. It was destroyed by the Eleans. According to local legend, the town was founded by Dysponteus, son of Oenomaus.
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Juniperus phoenicea Juniperus phoenicea, the Phoenicean juniper or Arâr, is a juniper found throughout the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal east to Italy, Turkey and Egypt, south on the mountains of Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and in western Saudi Arabia near the Red Sea, and also on Madeira and the Canary Islands. It mostly grows at low altitudes close to the coast, but reaches 2400 m altitude in the south of its range in the Atlas Mountains. It is the vegetable symbol of the island of El Hierro.
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Vlachokerasia Vlachokerasia (Greek: Βλαχοκερασιά ) is a village in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. It is located 22 km from Tripoli and at an altitude of 960 meters, in a region with cherry trees, holly, chestnuts and apple trees, walnuts and plane trees. Many water mills and water jets served not only Vlachokerasia but also the villages to Tegea. The place has always been inhabited. The ancient inhabitants, the Skyrites, were famous warriors. The rich finds of the archaeological excavation from the area are housed in the Tegea Museum. It was the territory of Demeter, apparently because of the very fertile land.Some testimonials from past generations over time confirm that the ancient name of the village was Ion (Greek: Ιών )
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Rhamnus lycioides Rhamnus lycioides, the black hawthorn, European buckthorn, or Mediterranean buckthorn, is a shrub up to about 1 metre tall in the Rhamnaceae (buckthorn) family. It is found in the Mediterranean region, in southern Europe and northern Africa. Its scientific name "lycioides" refers to its resemblance to the botanical genus "Lycium".
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Doliche (Thessaly) Doliche (Greek: Δολίχη ), was an ancient Greek city in Perrhaebia in Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Doliche, with the two neighbouring towns of Azorus and Pythion (Pythium), formed a Tripolis. The site is occupied by the modern town of the same name; when William Martin Leake visited the site in the 19th century, he found two fragments of Doric columns 2 ft in diameter in a ruined church, and a sepulchral stone in the burying-ground, together with some squared blocks.
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Rhine Valley Rhine Valley (German: Rheintal) is the valley, or any section of it, of the river Rhine in Europe.