PSY-Q
Psyche
Personification of the human soul and wife of Eros.
Psychopompos
The guider of souls; Hermes.
Pubilius Syrus
(Fl. 43 B.C.) A Syrian writer of mimes.
Pudicitia
Roman goddess of modesty and chastity.
Pyanepsia
Festival celebrated in Athens on the sevent day of Pyanepsion (end of October) in honor of departing summer god, Apollo.
PYGMALION
King of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he was sculpting. Aphrodite brought it to life. They married and had a son Paphos.
Pyramus And Thisbe
Two Babylonian lovers from hostile families.
Pyrrha
Daughter of Epimetheus, wife od Deucalion.
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher from Samos from about 580 B.C. Said to have been the first to style himself a philosopher.
Pythia
The oracle for Apollo at Delphi.
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