Mythological Dictionary on Letter #S

Saturnalia

Saturnalia or saturnian or saturnine or saturnism. The titan Saturn (equated with the Greek Cronus)...

Satyr

Satyr or satyriasis. Satyrs were male woodland deities with the ears and legs of a goat, who worshi...

Scylla and Charybdis

Scylla was once a beautiful maiden, who was transformed into a hideous creature, with the heads of y...

Siren

Siren or siren song. The Sirens were nymphs (encountered by Odysseus) often depicted with bird-like...

Sisyphean

Sisyphus was a famous resident of Hades who was condemned to roll an enormous rock up a hill only to...

Sphinx

The sphinx terrorized Thebes before the arrival of Oedipus (see Oedipal Complex). She was a hybrid c...

Stentorian

Stentor was the herald of the Greek army at Troy, who could speak with the power of fifty men. Today...

Stygian

Across the river Styx, the "hateful" river that circles the realm of the underworld, the ferryman Ch...

Syringe

Syrinx ("pan-pipes") rejected the god Pan and was turned into a bed of reeds from which he fashioned...