"To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense, it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it." - Henry Davi...

As a mother, and arguably as a daughter, Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, is a powerful and passionate woman. She is portrayed in Greek mythology as a mysterious and beautiful seductress, yet she is also depicted as devious and cunning. There are some Greek myths that suggest that Aphrodite is ...

Foreign women of mythology are set apart in some way from their fellows. The mythological figures of Helen of Troy and Medea are two key examples of this separation seen throughout mythology in antiquity. In the instance of Medea: the woman who "kills her children in vengeance when her husband dese...

Adonis was a handsome young man in Greek mythology who was so good looking that his beauty attracted even Aphrodite, the goddess of love. He was born out of the incestuous union between King Cinyras of Cyprus and his daughter. As a child, Adonis learned to enjoy the sport of hunting. According to th...

Tales of mermaids have been around for thousands of years. Men have told these tales of beautiful and dangerous creatures who live primarily beneath the sea. The common image of the Merfolk, mermaids and mermen, is that they are humans from the waist up, but fishes from the waist down. They are sai...

The Greek gods that lived on mount Olympus were a very central part of Greek society. There was a very large array of different deities. These deities could account for almost every facet of the day-to-day lives of Grecian men and women. The Grecians connected their feelings, circumstances, situat...

My report is on Ares. He is the god of war and violence and in Norse mythology he was the god of war, violence, and justice. He was the son of Zeus and Hera. His weapon of choice was a spear because it was magical. The magical part of it was he could summon it by call it and the other part of it w...

My report is on Ares. He is the god of war and violence and in Norse mythology he was the god of war, violence, and justice. He was the son of Zeus and Hera. His weapon of choice was a spear because it was magical. The magical part of it was he could summon it by call it and the other part of it w...

She was a gorgeous, perfect, eternally young woman with a beautiful body. She was known as the goddess of love and beauty, her name was Aphrodite. Although her powerful sexual attractiveness and dazzling beauty were a strength of hers, it also lead to her weakness. With a perfect face and body, ...

Greek Gods What we know today of the Greek gods today come from stories and myths. The Oldest of these that we know of are the Iliad and the Odyssey that come from Homer. Other poets we know of are: Virgil, Ovid, Hesiod, Aeshylus, Apuleius, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Theocritus. These...

Erida is Hate. She is Strife and Discord. Unfortunately, there are many conflicting sources of information about this Greek Goddess of Hate. Most sources cite her as the twin sister of Ares; some sources say that she is the same as Eris, Goddess of Discord, while others state that Eris and Eri...