The greatest hero of Greece was Hercules. He was a personage of quite another order from the great hero of Athens, Theseus. He was what all Greece except Athens most admired. The Athenians were different from the other Greeks and their hero therefore was different.
This dearest of heroes to the Athenians engaged the attention of many writers. Ovid, who lived in the Augustan Age,…
Kronos, Titan son of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Ouranos, proved every bit as possessive a patriarch…
In the beginning was Chaos, an open chasm of emptiness – infinitely deep, dark, and silent. In his vision of…
This is a story on the level of the fairy story. Hermes and Athena act like the fairy godmother in…
Both Ovid and Apollodorus tell this story. Apollodorus lived probably more than a hundred years after Ovid. He is a…
This story is alluded to in the Odyssey and the Aeneid, but only Apollodorus tells it in full. He wrote,…