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Argennis, the Glossary

Argennis (Ἀργεννίς) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, which was derived from Argennus (sometimes Anglicized as "Argynnos"), a son of Peisidice.^[1]

11 relations: Agamemnon, Aphrodite, Argynnus, Athenaeus, Cephissus (Boeotia), Deipnosophistae, Epithet, Greek mythology, Oxford University Press, Pisidice, Stephanus of Byzantium.
Epithets of Aphrodite

Agamemnon

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War.

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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Argynnus

In Greek mythology, Athenaeus tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend or lover Argynnus (Árgunnos), a boy from Boeotia, when he drowned in the Cephisus river.

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Athenaeus

Athenaeus of Naucratis (Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.

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Cephissus (Boeotia)

The Cephissus (Κήφισσος), called the Boeotian Cephissus to distinguish it from other rivers of the same name, or Kifisos (Βοιωτικός Κηφισός) is a river in central Greece.

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Deipnosophistae

The Deipnosophistae is an early 3rd-century AD Greek work (Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistaí, lit. "The Dinner Sophists/Philosophers/Experts") by the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis.

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Epithet

An epithet, also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pisidice

In Greek mythology, Pisidice (Πεισιδίκη, Peisidíkē, "to convince or persuade") or Peisidice was one of the following individuals.

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Stephanus of Byzantium

Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (Stephanus Byzantinus; Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, Stéphanos Byzántios; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (Ἐθνικά).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argennis