People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and ... to look up at her to meet her eyes but with all his strength he kept his head turned away as Athena ...

All readings may be done in English. Note that the list assumes that you will devote most of your effort to literary sources. If you wish to devote substantial time to art and archaeology as sources ...

Second-century CE writer Apollodorus recounts in his Library of Greek Mythology that the baby Zeus ... Poseidon the seas and ...

all of which were believed to have human characteristics. Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek ...