The birth of Apollo and Artemis was not ordinary. When Hera, Zeus’ wife, found out that Leto was pregnant with the twins, she was angry and cursed Leto. Hera prevented Leto from giving birth to the twins anywhere on earth. Eventually, Leto found the floating island of Delos, and there...
◇ There she gave birth to the twins ,Apollo and Artemis.在岛上,她生了孪生儿子阿波罗和阿尔特弥斯。 --- Apollo ◇ She gave birth to a beautiful son. The old mother quickly wrote this in a letter, giving the joyful news to the king.后来姑娘果真生了个健康漂亮的男孩,国王年迈的母亲立刻...
Like Athena and Artemis, the great goddess Hera also mysteriously bore the elevated title Parthenos, “Virgin,” despite being yoked in marriage to the god Zeus. In this discussion, we see that Hera was once goddess of the sky, earth, and underworld who had no male consort. We recognize ...
and would not suffer them to come up into the light: and Heaven rejoiced in his evil doing. But vast Earth groaned within, being straitened, and she made the element of grey flint and shaped a great sickle, and told her plan to her dear sons."- HesiodTheogony, which is all...
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (1972–1975) –It was the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight. The mission included both joint and separate scientific experiments, including an engineered eclipse of the Sun by Apollo to allow Soyuz to take photographs of the solar corona. Space Shuttle program (...