To earn the title of Master of Olympus, Zeus took many important steps, and overcame many challenges. His story is on...

His first wife was Metis. His second, who was known as his wife on Olympus, was the jealous Hera. But there was also ...

Taking revenge against Prometheus, Zeus created the first woman - the beautiful Pandora. He gave her a manipulative a...

Having become organizer of the world, Zeus entrusted the world of the sea to his brother Poseidon, and the underworld...

The Goddess of War Athena was the wisest, most level headed and rational deity. She was born out of Zeus' skull, wear...

Although they were the son and daughter of Zeus, Apollo and his twin sister Artemis were born under threats from the ...

Kronos revolted against his father Uranus. He severed his father's genitals, and threw them into the sea, where they ...

Zeus had a reputation for being a seducer of women. One day he lay with a mortal - Semele, the daughter of the king o...

Hermes was the youngest of the Gods of Olympus. Right from birth, he was an insolent, thieving, trickster God. While ...

Tartarus, situated in the deepest part of the earth, is the prison of the Underworld. It is there that we find the fa...

In this myth, many versions of which have been passed down through the ages, Psyche is the Beauty. Concerned that his...

Perseus should never have come into the world. For fear of a prediction that made his grandson his assassin, King Acr...

On certain evenings, the constellation of Lyra is visible in the skies. Following Orpheus' death, Zeus placed the con...

On his quest to find the Golden Fleece, Jason asked the cruel King of Colchis and his daughter Medea, a powerful sorc...

Bellerophon, the grandson of Sisyphus, one of the Greek world's worst criminals, dreamt of becoming a hero, of being ...

Theseus was the fruit of dual paternity: Aegeus King of Athens slept with Aethra when she had just been raped by Pose...

Dedalus, a prominent Greek inventor, settled in Crete among King Minos' court. Queen Pasiphaë, who had an all-consumi...

We all know about Heracles' unequalled strength, and the twelve labors he had to carry out, but we know a great deal ...

No mortal endured more terrible a tragedy than Oedipus. He was the son of King Laius, King of Thebes. The Gods forbad...

Antigone was one of Oedipus' four children. She had two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, as well as a sister, Ismene...