Gods & Godesses

It might be oversimplifying things to call Aphrodite just the “Greek Love Goddess”, much as it is oversimplifying things to call any woman “just” anything. Yes, love was the realm over which ...

Zeus was the King of the Greek gods, ruler of Mt. Olympus, and possessor of divine wisdom; except when he wasn’t. From time to time Zeus would seduce a woman - mortal or goddess - and then regret his ...

A quick look at the marriage between the King of the Greek gods and his Queen would leave one with the impression that things between them were rocky, at best. Hera always seems to be chasing after ...

If there is one figure that stands out of Greek Mythology it is the hero Heracles, although ironically he is best known under his Roman name, Hercules. He has become a figure of Legendary status, ...

Ares was a Greek god that, it seemed, no one really wanted around (expect for Aphrodite.) While commonly called the God of War, Ares was more accurately the god of “war -madness”, bloodlust, and ...

Some may know him better as Ulysses, but Odysseus is was his Greek name, and the name under which he emerged from Greek mythology as one of its greatest heroes. In the company of Hector, Achilles, ...

Not all of the Monsters of Greek Myth were monstrous, although many were. In many of the stories from Greek mythology creatures half animal and half man, or man -like but possessed of animal ...

In Greek mythology there are different groups of gods and goddesses, but the one group that emerges as the most important in Greek myth is the Twelve Olympians. These principal gods, sometimes ...

The most famous group coming out of Greek mythology are the gods of Olympus, but they were not the first deities of the Greeks. According to myth and legend, before the Twelve Olympians there were ...

Like many gods in many Pantheons, the Greek Father of the gods, Zeus, had many aspects of life -- both those readily understood and those clouded in mystery -- attributed to him and his sphere of ...