WebGreek Myths, Stories and Legends. This section of the site covers some of the most popular Greek myths, legends and stories of ancient Greece. ... In this retelling of the myth, we will explore the story of Athena’s birth. Zeus’s first wife was the Oceanid Metis, and after they married, Metis became […] Myths of the Constellations.

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WebDeity Description Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη, Aphroditē) . Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure. In Hesiod's Theogony (188–206), she was born from sea-foam and the severed genitals of Uranus; in Homer's Iliad (5.370–417), she is daughter of Zeus and Dione.She was married to Hephaestus, but bore him no children.She had many lovers, most notably …

WebIn Greek Mythology, Apollo was the God of Light, and it was his job to pull the sun across the sky in his 4-horse chariot every day.He has also been referred to as the God of music, poetry, art, medicine, knowledge, plague and archery. Apollo was the son of Zeus (the God of Thunder) and Leto.He had a twin sister, Artemis, who was the Goddess of Hunting.

WebGreek mythology contains some of the Western World’s most celebrated myths and legends. As with most other mythologies belonging to ancient civilizations, the Greeks used their myths as a way to explain the dangerous world around them.More than that though, they acted as a method to get for creating a more unified Greek culture across the …

WebSep 02, 2002 · The stories are summarized both to save space and to avoid copyright infringements, but I have attempted to preserve all the motifs and all the names that were given in the cited account. ... Greek: Zeus sent a flood to destroy the men of the Bronze Age. ... In one version of the myth of the Wawalik sisters, the sisters, with their two infant ...

WebIn mythology, the Greek underworld is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that makes up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence (psyche) is separated from the corpse and is transported to the underworld. In early mythology (e.g., Homer's Iliad and …

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WebAncient Greek mythology is full of classic stories which have become part of Western literature and culture; these stories have even given us some well-known words and phrases commonly used in English, and in other languages. Below, we introduce 12 of the greatest and best-known tales from the world of Greek mythology, from curious women…

WebThe Aeneid was a sequel to and imitation of the Greek Iliad, which is attributed to Homer. The Odyssey was the original (surviving) sequel to the Iliad, written in Greek and supposedly by the same guy who wrote the Iliad, though we really don't know (especially since Homer was a blind, illiterate poet who relied solely on oral recitations).Both were …