And here, the archaic Greek author Hesiod tells us in his catalogue of creation myths, Theogony, from the foaming mess arose “an awful and lovely maiden.” This maiden-goddess was Aphrodite ...
Heracles or Hercules according to Roman mythology is a prominent figure in Classical mythology and is considered among the most famous of all the Greek heroes. Heracles was born ...
They were great builders too. The Greeks built grand temples to their gods and superb sculptures of brave heroes. Three different designs of ancient Greek columns. The Greeks believed that the ...
(For the Slavic Myth of Creation, go here.) Perun is undoubtedly the highest god of the Slavic Pantheon ... As a thunder-god, he has been compared to Zeus in Greek or Thor in Norse mythology. While ...