Greek

Zeus once woke from a trick sleep in a rage, ready to fling the god who had lulled him off…

A hunter comes over the ridge and finds a goddess bathing in a mountain pool. He gets one look. By…

A winged woman slips from a mortal’s bed before first light and climbs into her chariot. Homer opens whole days…

She was born fully grown, in full armor, screaming a war cry, straight out of her father’s skull. That’s how…

Every spring, the story goes, she comes back up. Persephone is the girl who was carried down into the dark…

The first thing Aphrodite ever touched was a beach on Cyprus, and grass sprang up under her feet. That’s Hesiod’s…

Around 300 BC a king founded a city on the Orontes River and ordered a statue before the walls were…

The moon, to the Greeks, is a woman with a job. Each dusk she climbs out of the ocean, puts…

Gaia, often revered as the primal Earth goddess in Greek mythology, holds a significant place in the pantheon of ancient…

Zeus overthrew the Titans and stripped most of them of everything. Hecate, he left alone. He gave her a share…