2023年2月15日 · Europa was the beautiful Phoenician princess whom Zeus carried across the waves in the form of a bull so that he could make love to her. Zeus set Europa down on the …

2023年7月10日 · Moschus: The second-century BCE poet Moschus wrote an epyllion (a mini-epic), usually called Europa, on the myth of Zeus’ abduction of Cadmus’ relative Europa. …

2023年3月25日 · Mythology Origins. The origins of the Talos myth are mysterious. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato rationalized the myth, saying that the bronze robot who ran around …

2023年7月25日 · Mythology Origins. In Greek mythology, the Titans and the Olympians were represented as fierce enemies, fighting a ten-year war known as the Titanomachy. But …

Greek Mortals. Human beings doomed to die who lived at the mercy of the gods. The mortals of Greek mythology included kings and queens, prophets, healers, warriors, and peasants. …

2023年9月21日 · Overview. Zeus was the supreme god of the Greeks, a mighty deity who meted out justice from atop Mount Olympus. Hailed as the father of both mortals and immortals, Zeus …

2022年12月8日 · The etymology of the name “Helen” (Greek Ἑλένη, translit. Helénē) continues to be debated. One school of thought derives Helen’s name from Greek or Indo-European root …

2023年5月20日 · The Minotaur was a hybrid monster (half-bull, half-man) born of the unorthodox union between the queen of Crete and a beautiful bull. The Minotaur was hidden from the …

2023年6月20日 · Hesiod, Works and Days 160. ↩; Hesiod, Works and Days 109–79.Cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.89–112. ↩; Cf. Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the …

2023年3月11日 · However, since Nereus’ only significant act in Greek mythology was fathering the Nereids, it is likely that the term “Nereid” is actually older than the name “Nereus.” If this is …