Greek and Roman Mythologies
Greek and Roman mythology is the collection of legends and myths belonging to the ancient Greeks and Romans, concerning their gods and heroes, and the nature of the world.
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Chaos was not human. Her name, in Greek, means "a gap or gaping void". She was the personification of nothingness.
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Athena and Hera - because they lost the contest for the Golden Apple to Aphrodite (who then awarded the hand of Helen to Paris,...
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No the Greek underworld is not hell because it has a certain place where the souls of good people go where as hell is a place...
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No. They were mythological and didn't really exist.
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Names are usually have a meaning relating to what the deity is God/Goddess of.
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Jupiter was the Roman personification of the Heavens (i.e. the sky).
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Stygian is an adjective that references the River Styx. So, a Stygian Harpy would be a Harpy found in the Underworld, near the...
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No,Poseidon is associatied with marine life(e.g. dolphins)as he is the god of sea and a bull is a land animal... the bull is...
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According to Greek myth, when Prometheus made man, he wanted to give them a special gift. But his brother, Epimetheus, had given...
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Some qualities of Greek mythology include that the myths are polytheistic and that the deities are anthropomorphic. For example,...
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Yes, Medusa was said to be quite beautiful before turning into a Gorgon.
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Kali has hair, yes. But she is a goddess.
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It is possible. There are so many cults, sects, pseudo religions in the world that it's possible that some group worships the...
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Only if the zombie could see her... if they didn't have eyes, or were blind, they wouldn't. The myth tells us that locking gazes...
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Yes; Medusa and her sisters were the three gorgons.
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Yes it is. King Midas saw the satyr Silenus who was a friend of the god of wine, Dionysus, and invited him to stay with him for a...
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The link provided has the full story. Enjoy
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I wouldn't say "joined" I would say that they just got passed down through the centuries. Then, they got mixed with the Roman's...
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I'm pretty sure it was Europa. - In the Iliad, Europa is mentioned as the daughter of Phoenix, the first king of Phoenicia....
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Yes, Ancient Greeks believed in Greek Gods/Goddesses.
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Hephaestus, the God of Smiths. (He's also married to Aphrodite, and I believe one of Hera and Zeus' few children with each...
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This never happens. A young prince, Aeceton, viewed the goddess Artemis naked and was turned into a stag, and was then hunted...
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It's difficult, if not impossible, to determine Hera's first child. Hera's only three children were Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus.
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Kronos was the personification of the Heavens, as he usurped his father Ouranos, and was in turn overthrown by his son Zeus. All...
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According to some myths, Heracles was made the god of Strength. Which stands to reason because as a mortal, he was the strongest...
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Helium is a element named after the Greek sun god, Helios.
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I think you are referring to either Tethys, the Titan goddess of the Sea, wife of Okeanos or to Thetis, mother of Achilles and a...
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Being a personification of the fertility of the earth, Demeter would never tie herself to a single male figure. She had trysts...
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Selene was the Titan goddess of the moon, she was the incarnate of it.
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Hephaestus had a crippled leg and was ugly.
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mercury the equivilent of Hermes
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Open the cover, keep a open mind, and begin to read.
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Hector doesn't heed King Priam's words. He felt a sense of duty to protect his home and his family. When the Greeks reach the...
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They did not control Greek life entirely, but were an ever present force. The gods demanded sacrifices, lest they become angry...
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In Greek mythology, it wasn't the weapon, but the person who was important. Not just anyone could slay a chthonic monster. You...
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I'm pretty sure there life is eternal but I'm not sure.
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Psyche was said to be extraordinarily beautiful, so beautiful that men were abandoning Venus' temples to worship her.
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Sisyphus. After his death, King Sisyphus was condemned to Hell; he would be freed when he managed to roll an enormous boulder out...
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The Titans were the children of Ouranos and Gaea and are considered primordial gods. Traditionally, they were: Kronos, Okeanos,...
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There was no such place in Greek or Roman myth. Maybe you are referring to the Library at Alexandria, which was said to hold all...
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Selene is the Greek goddess of the Moon. Her Roman counterpart is Luna.
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Selene, the Greek moon goddess, was called Luna in Rome.
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Saturn is named for the Roman god of the harvest.
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Cupid's Greek counterpart was Eros.
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It is said that when Persephone visits the Earth there is spring and summer, but when she leaves, fall and winter occur.
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alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau upsilon phi...
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It all depends on what conflicts you believe exist. The great hero Hector was killed. Paris ends up shooting Achilles, another...
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His name was Mars
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Anchiale a Titan goddess whose name means "warmth" or "heat".
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Well Helen of Troy is in the Illiad which is an epic. Odysseus is in the epic The Odyssey. Hope that helps
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There are many Greek goddesses who's name start with an "A." There's Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis, to name a few. I'm certain there...
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Boltar is not from Greek mythology.
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You can't quantify something like that with a date. It's like asking "When did God become popular". Suffice it to say that the...
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roman greek mytholigies
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This 2,700-year-old city played a key role in ancient times, when it was one of the major powers of the Mediterranean world. and...
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Athena did not give Arachne a chance to repent, at least not in the version I know. According to my texts, Arachne was boastful...
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The goddess of the moon, light or dark, is Selene.
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By worship.
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Apollo would have been Hestia's nephew by Zeus
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The Illiad
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Ελληνική θεά - Hellenike Thea
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Only the Minoan Culture, from Greece's Bronze Age, dates as far back as that 3500 BCE.
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It's generally pictured as a heart with an arrow diagonally through it.
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None. He loved a nymph named Syrinx who turned into bed of reeds to escape him
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the world (the geographical area corresponding to the entire surface area of planet earth)
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well, I think it's because the myths were so extraordinary and interesting that the archeologist's decided to sell them or write...
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Teiresias represents wisdom in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. -- 405 B.C.E.). Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet...
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There isn't one. The closest god is Morpheus, the god of sleep and bringer of dreams.
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Well... if we take a look into Greek mythology, Mars is often representative to Ares (the god of war). Although he does not have...
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Yes.Arachne would not admit that her immense skill for weaving and embroidery came from the goddess Athene. She boasted, "Let...
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