The mortal turned out to be a beautiful young woman, Amethystos, who was on her way to pay tribute to Artemis.

In Greek mythology, Zeus places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Heracles, on Hera's breast while she is asleep so that the baby will drink her divine milk and will thus become immortal.

Hera offered Paris control over all Asia and Europe, while Athena offered wisdom, fame, and glory in battle, and Aphrodite offered the most beautiful mortal woman in the world as a wife, and he accordingly chose her.

Thus, Heracles ' very existence proved at least one of Zeus ' many illicit affairs, and Hera often conspired against Zeus ' mortal offspring as revenge for her husband's infidelities.

She was often portrayed as the shrewish, jealous wife of Zeus, who himself often escaped from her controlling ways by cheating on her with other women, mortal and immortal.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

" From her is the race of women and female kind ," Hesiod writes ; " of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.

:::"... they writhedgasping as Scylla swung them up her cliff and thereat her cavern's mouth she bolted them down raw — screaming out, flinging their arms toward me, lost in that mortal struggle.

According to Totonac mythology, the tropical orchid was born when Princess Xanat, forbidden by her father from marrying a mortal, fled to the forest with her lover.

Whenever Alti stares at Xena, Xena often feels the pain of when her legs were broken, her back snapped by her Chakram, and multiple barrages of attacks from some of her mortal enemies.

* Anya Jenkins — Born mortal a thousand years ago as Aud, Anya became the vengeance demon Anyanka after turning her cheating boyfriend into a troll.

When one of her curses went in an unanticipated direction, the breaking of a curse stripped her of her powers and made her mortal again.

Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke asserts that Thetis was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but she was married off to the mortal Peleus because of their fears about the prophecy by Themis ( or Prometheus, or Calchas, according to others ) that her son would become greater than his father.

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.

If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??

She was approached by James Cameron to play the part of " Rose Dawson Calvert " for his 1997 blockbuster Titanic with Kate Winslet to play her younger self, but she turned down the role and the part of Rose was given to Gloria Stuart.

Heidi Schiller, joined by her younger counterpart, performs " One More Kiss ", her aged voice a stark contrast to the sparkling coloratura of her younger self.

Phyllis reflects on the two sides of her personality, " juicy " Lucy — the young Phyllis, naive but passionate, and " dressy " Jessie — Phyllis's jaded, well-groomed present self (" The Story of Lucy and Jessie ").

His last reference to Lady Macbeth, however, reveals "' tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life " ( 5. 9. 71 – 72 ), leading most to assume that she committed suicide, but the method is undisclosed.

Purification is similar in theme to banishing, but is a more rigorous process of preparing the self and her temple for serious spiritual work.

For Crowley, the single most important invocation, or any act of magick for that matter, was the invocation of one's Holy Guardian Angel, or " secret self ", which allows the adept to know his or her True Will.

Her portrait of messianic ( self -) sacrifices of these figures make for entertaining speculation, but they have not been taken seriously as history even by her staunchest supporters, though they have been used in novels ( e. g. Katherine Kurtz's Lammas Night, Philip Lindsay's The Devil and King John ).

As is often the case in stories of this hero, the sober Hercules responds with heartbroken grief and remorse at the actions of his darker self, and lays Pyrene to rest tenderly, demanding that the surrounding geography join in mourning and preserve her name: " struck by Herculean voice, the mountaintops shudder at the ridges ; he kept crying out with a sorrowful noise ' Pyrene!

Therefore, to properly study a text a reader must understand how the work is related to his or her own personal concept of self.

When a group of Klingon radicals spent time aboard Voyager (" Prophecy "), Torres began opening her self to more Klingon beliefs and, for the first time since childhood, was able to pray for her grandmother, L ' Naal, and her great-grandmother, Krelik.

She travels to the past and attempts to hand the past Voyager over to the Vidiians while she takes her past self home, but this attempt is thwarted.

Using their new foreknowledge of these events, the present Janeway and Tuvok create a hologram of Kes at the time who reminds her future self about her affection for the crew and how much they had cared for her, thus showing Kes how irrational her hatred is.

In 1996, Crow released her self titled second album.

By creating Lady Reason, Christine not only teaches her own allegorical self, but also the readers.

The dream presents poignant anxieties about how she appears to others, not belonging, and the consequences of people finding out her true self.

Aphrodite, who married Hephaistos, nevertheless had an affair with Ares to have Eros ( Love ), Phobos ( Fear ), Deimos ( Cowardice ), and Harmonia ( Harmony ), who would later marry Cadmus to sire Ino ( who with her son, Melicertes would become a sea deity ), Semele ( Mother of Dionysos ), Autonoë ( Mother of Actaeon ), Polydorus, and Agave ( Mother of Pentheus ).

Ino, pursued by her husband, who had been driven mad by Hera because Ino had brought up the infant Dionysus, threw herself and Melicertes into the sea from a high rock between Megara and Corinth, Both were changed into marine deities: Ino as Leucothea, noted by Homer, Melicertes as Palaemon.

In another myth, when his mother, Semele, is killed, the care of young Dionysus falls into the hands of her sisters, Ino, Agave, and Autonoe, who later are depicted as participating in the rites and taking a leadership role among the other maenads.

Most of Semele's family, including her sisters Ino, Autonoe, and Agauë, refused to believe that Dionysus was the son of Zeus, and the young god is spurned in his home.

However, Semele's family — her sisters Agave, Autonoe, and Ino, and her father, Cadmus — still believe that Semele blasphemously lied about the identity of the baby's father and that she died as a result.

Ino was jealous of her stepchildren and plotted their deaths: in some versions, she persuaded Athamas that sacrificing Phrixus was the only way to end the drought.

Later, Ino raised Dionysus, her nephew, son of her sister Semele, causing Hera's intense jealousy.

Athamas went mad and slew one of his sons, Learchus ; Ino, to escape the pursuit of her frenzied husband, threw herself into the sea with her son Melicertes.

When Athamas returned to his second wife, Ino, Themisto sought revenge by dressing her children in white clothing and Ino's in black.

Ino switched their clothes without Themisto's knowledge, and she killed her own children.

Nephele married Athamus, but he divorced her for Ino.

In Greek mythology Ino ( ) was a mortal queen of Thebes, who after her death and transfiguration was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the " white goddess.

Later, Ino raised Dionysus, her nephew, son of her sister Semele, causing Hera's intense jealousy.

To escape him Ino threw herself into the sea with her son Melicertes.

A sympathetic Zeus didn't want Ino to die, and transfigured her and Melicertes as Leucothea and Palaemon.

Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, had an end just as tragic as her siblings: Semele died while pregnant with Zeus ' child, killed by her own pride and lack of trust in her lover ; Agave killed her own son, King Pentheus, while struck with Dionysian madness, and Actaeon, son of Autonoe, the third sibling, was torn apart by his own hunting dogs.