Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Pasiphae

    mythological figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    Pasipha · an ancient queen of the Heliadae in Crete · daughter of Helius

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Ancient queen of the Heliadae in Crete“Pasiphae”1 mention

    Orations (Greek)

    They say an ancient queen of the Heliadae in Crete loved a bull, and consorting with it bore a grievous and great monster.
    oration 32

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Mythical queen whose unnatural affliction Daedalus abetted with a contrivance.

    And again, in abetting the malady of Pasiphae he did not act rightly;
    oration 71
    As, then, Daedalus is said to have made the bull, deceiving Pasiphae, by stretching the hide of a cow over wood, so those men put round the males the form of a woman, and otherwise do not know how to love.
    oration 21
    They say an ancient queen of the Heliadae in Crete loved a bull, and consorting with it bore a grievous and great monster.
    oration 32

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    Daughter of the Sun, listed among figures not counted as goddesses despite divine parentage

    What, then — shall Ino be held a goddess, and called Leucothea by the Greeks and Matuta by us, since she is the daughter of Cadmus, while Circe, Pasiphae, and Aeetes, born of Perseis the daughter of Ocean, with the Sun for their father, shall not be held in the number of the gods?
    book 3

    HelenClassical · Greek

    Daughter of Helius and mother of the Minotaur, the monster reared in Crete.

    At about the same time appeared the monster reared in Crete, the offspring of Pasipha, daughter of Helius, to whom our city was sending, in accordance with an oracle’s command, tribute of twice seven children.
    helen