Persephone was the queen of the Underworld, it was forbidden to speak her name. In a text ascribed to Empedocles, the name Nestis for water apparently refers to Persephone. “Now hear the fourfold roots of everything: enlivening Hera, Hades, shining Zeus. And Nestis, moistening mortal springs with tears”.

Persephone

The Moirae were the white-robed personifications of destiny. The Greek word moira literally means a part, and by extension one’s portion in life or destiny. The Moirae controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal from birth to death.

Les Moires étaient les pâles personnifications du destin. Littéralement, le mot grec moira signifie une part et, par extension, la portion de vie ou de destinée de chacun. Les Moires contrôlaient le lien métaphorique qui va de la naissance à la mort.

Μοira

Odysseus disguises take forms both physical and verbal, such as telling the Cyclops Polyphemus that his name is ?????, translated as “nobody” or “no man”, then escaping after blinding Polyphemus.

Οὖτίς

Antigone is a daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between Oedipus and his mother Jocasta. She is the subject of Sophocles’s tragedies Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, in which she attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polyneices, even though he was a traitor to Thebes.

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