DEMETER'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY PAGE:

PASIPHAE: daughter of Helios and sister of Circe. She became the wife of Minos, king of Crete, and by him the mother of Androgeos, Aridne and Phaedra. She fell in love with a beauiful white bull presented to Mino by Poseidon, and in order to attract the bull, crept inside an ingeniously life-like hollow cow of wood which she had ordered Daedalus, the master craftsman, to fashion. As result of her union with the bull, she gave birth to the Minotaur.

PELIAS: son of Aeson. When Aeson’s son Jason later came to claim the throne, Pelias, in order to trid himself of him, sent him to fetch the Golden Fleece from Colchis. After Jason’s return, Pelias was cut to pieces and boiled by his own daughters, who had been told by Medea that thus they might restore his youth.

PEMPHREDO: “alarm,” one of the Graiae.

PENTHESILEA: daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons. She fought against the Achaeans as an ally of Troy, but was slain by Achilles, who mourned the beauty, youth and valor of the dying warrior-queen.

PERUSEUS: Greek legendary hero, son of Zeus and Danae. Polydectes, king of the Aegean island of Seriphos, fell in love with Danae and in order to get rid of Perseus, sent him to fetch the head of Medusa. He stole the single eye and tooth of the Graiae, the sisters of teh Gorgons, and refused to return them until they aided him in reaching Medusa. He found the Gorgons asleep and cut of the head of Medusa, looking at ther reflection in a mirror to avoid being turned into stone. After further adventures, including the resuce of Andromeda from the sea-dragon, he came back to Polydectes and turned him into stone. He then presented the Gorgon's head to Athena, who set it in the middle of Aegis.

PHILYRA: an Oceanid, and by Kronos the mother of Chiron the Centaur.

PHOBOS: "fright," sometimes considered as a son of Ares, and accompanying him in battle.

PHORCYDES: the offspring of Phorcys and Ceto: the Graiae, the Gorgons and Echidna.

PLEIADES: the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. They were the virgin companions of Artemis. Perusued, togther with their mother, by Orion, they prayed for resuce from the gods. Their pryaer was answered, and they were changed into doves and later intostars, forming a contellation in the sky.

POLYPHEMUS: one of the Cyclopes, son of Poseidon, who dwelt near Mt. Aetna in Sicily. Odysseus and his men fell into his clutches, and the Cyclops imprisoned them in his came. After he had dvoured several of Odysseus's companions, Odysseua secceeded in getting him drucnk and putting out his only eye with the sharpened and heated trunk of a tree. The prisoners then escaped by slinging to the bellies of Polyhemus's sheep as they filed out of the cave.

RHADAMANTHUS(Rhadamanthys): son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete, and Sardedon. Because of his just life on earth, he became one of the three judges of the underworld, together with Minos and Aeacus.

SARDEDON: son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos and Rhadamantus. Like his brothers, he was a favorite of the gods, and Zeus granted him the privilege of living for three (or six) generations. He was an ally of Troy during the Trojan War, and was slain by Patroclus.

TYPHON(Typhaon, Typhoeus: a huge dragonlike monster, with a hundered snake- heads, the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus. He was associated with the turmoil and storm of the wind and the sea, and is described as contending with Zeus himself, or with Apollo. He was confined in Tartarus, or lies buried beneath Mt. Aetna. By Echidna he was the father of the Sphinx. Later Greek writers on Egypt identifed him with the Egyptian "evil" god Set.