Mythological Dictionary on Letter #E

Echo

There are two major myths which tell how the acoustic phenomenon of the echo arose. According to one...

Electra complex

Comparable in the development of the female is the electra complex, a psychotic attachment to the fa...

Elysian Fields

Elysian Fields or Elysian or Elysium. In Vergil's conception of the Underworld there is a place in ...

Enthusiasm

In cultic ritual, particularly Dionysiac, the initiate was often thought to become possessed by the ...

Eristic

Eris was the goddess of "strife" or "discord," responsible for all the dissension arising from the A...

Erotic

Erotic or erotica or eratomania. To the Greeks Eros was one of the first generation of divinities b...

Europe

Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre in Phoenicia. Zeus, disguised as a white bull, entic...