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Princesses in Greek mythology
- ClytemnestraClytemnestra, a queen of Greek mythology, earned a blunt verdict from the author and classicist Madeline Miller. Miller wrote, "after Medea, Queen Clytemnestra is probably the most notorious woman in Greek mythology." That reputation rests…
- MedeaMedea's famous crime may be Euripides's own invention. Earlier poets blamed Corinth's citizens, or an accident.
- IphigeniaAgamemnon killed a deer in Artemis's sacred grove, and every wind stopped. His fleet could not reach Troy.
- Leda (mythology)In Greek myth, Zeus became an injured swan to fall into Leda's lap. Hyginus says he was hiding from his wife Hera.
- Phaedra (mythology)Phaedra, a princess of Crete in Greek mythology, carried a name that comes from the Greek word phaidros, meaning bright. Her story is anything but bright. It is a tale of forbidden longing for her own stepson, and of a royal household that…
- AlcmeneZeus stretched one night into three days to fool Alcmene. He came to her looking like her husband.
- Helen of TroyDid Helen of Troy go to Troy willingly, or at all? Ancient Greek writers gave conflicting answers.
- ChlorisChloris began as a word for a color, and Greek myth then handed it out to several different women. The Greek root, chlōrós, could mean greenish-yellow or pale green. It could also mean pale, pallid, or fresh. That is a wide range, running…
- CassandraApollo gave Cassandra true foresight, then made sure no one would believe her.
- AtalantaIn Greek myth, Atalanta drew first blood on the Calydonian boar before any man landed a strike.
- Europa (consort of Zeus)Zeus disguised himself as a tame white bull and carried Europa off to Crete. She became its first queen.