The king of the gods in the ancient Greek pantheon had a notorious reputation for sleeping around, so it should come as no ...

Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis and one of the twelve Olympian deities the Greeks believed ruled over the cosmos.

Ancient Greeks believed in supernatural causes for almost all events and attributed them to the goddess Tyche. The Romans ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...

Eris was the personification of strife and discord in Greek mythology, said to delight in the slaughter of men and any kind ...

The Gods of Olympus section features the sculptures created in the Classical Period of ancient Greece, from 480 to 325 BC.

In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state religion – called the di consentes – paralleled the gods of Greek mythology. Although they kept Latin names and images ...