Category Archives: Greek

Narcissus and Echo

Narcissus and Echo The Story of Echo and Narcissus is one of the most enduring tales from Greek mythology, and the tale of self-love and unrequited love is one which has been told and adapted over many hundreds of years. Echo Echo was an Oreiad nymph from Mount Cithaeron in Boeotia. The parents of the…More

Arachne and Athena

Athena was the goddess of war and wisdom, patron goddess of Athens and how the city got its name. Athena was worshipped for her beauty, intellect, and her craft in the art of warfare. But like all the Greek gods, she was fiercely headstrong and anybody who dared cross her wasn’t able to walk away…More

Orpheus and Eurydice

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is the ultimate tragic love story. Perhaps one of the most famous Greek myths, it has inspired many important painters, such as Peter Paul Rubens and Nicolas Poussin. Moreover, many operas, songs and plays have been composed to honour these two great lovers who tragically lost the chance to…More

List of Titans and Their Roles

Out of the empty space of Chaos came Gaea, the earth, Tartarus, the underworld, and Eros, desire. Gaea gave birth to the mountains, the sky, and the sea. She took her son the sky, Uranus, as her husband, and with him, she mothered the twelve Titans, the very first gods and goddesses, taller than the…More

Fall of Primordial Gods or Deities

Mythology In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in the Theogony, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the three one-hundred-handed giants the Hekatonkheires, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes. Uranus imprisoned Gaia’s youngest children in Tartarus,…More

THE MYTH OF HADES AND PERSEPHONE

The myth of Hades and Persephone is one of the well known Greek myths. Hades is the God of the Underworld also the brother of Zeus. Persephone is the Goddess of Nature and the daughter of Demeter. Hades And Persephone: The Beginning Of The Myth Hades fell in love with Persephone and decided to kidnap…More

List of Primordial Gods

Primordial Gods or Deities In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses. These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts. Chaos (Void) In…More