Hymen is the Greek god of what?
Hymen (god) Hymen (god) Hymen (), Hymenaios or Hymenaeus, in Hellenistic religion, is a god of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a "hymenaios" is a genre of Greek lyric poetry sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the "Epithalamium", which is sung at the nuptial threshold. He is one of the winged love gods, Erotes. Hymen is the son of Apollo and one of the muses, Clio or Calliope or Urania or Terpsichore. Hymen is supposed to attend every wedding. If he did
Hymen (god) also mentioned in Virgil's "Aeneid" and in seven plays by William Shakespeare: "Hamlet", "The Tempest", "Much Ado about Nothing", "Titus Andronicus", Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Timon of Athens, and "As You Like It", where he joins the couples at the end — There is a song to Hymen in the comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore" by W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan. Hymen also appears in the work of the 7th- to 6th-century BCE Greek poet Sappho (translation: M.L. West, "Greek Lyric Poetry", Oxford University Press): Hymen is the son of Dionysus/Bacchus (god of revelry) and Aphrodite (goddess of love); or, in