THETIS was a goddess of the sea and the leader of the fifty Nereides. Like many other sea gods she possessed the gift of prophesy and power to change her shape at will. Because of a prophesy that she was destined to bear a son greater than his father, Zeus had her marry a mortal ma...
Niobe, queen of Thebes, once boasted that she was better than Leto because she had many children while the goddess had but two. Artemis and Apollo avenged this insult to their mother by killing all or most of Niobe's children with their arrows. The weeping Niobe was transformed into stone...
So spoke the goddess; and Eros wildly leapt from his mother's lap and took up his bow, slung the allvanquishing quiver about his little shoulder, and sailed away on his wings through the air; round Kerne (Cerne) he turned his flight opposite the rays of morning, smiling that he had se...
This clay model of a riding woman or goddess from Archanes Crete dated around 1100-1000 BC, Even if not related to a warrior, shows the typic riding method used by the women as well as the large and confortable saddle utilized for this kind of riding. Such figurines have been found in...
It is believed that Thetis dipped her son, Achilles, into the Styx, which made him invulnerable, aside from his heels, which Thetis held whereas dipping him. The historic Greek goddess of victory, Nike was the daughter of the enormous Pallas and the river Styx. This is probably one of ...
Psyche was the ancient Greek goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros (Roman Cupid) god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) when men began turning their worship away from the goddes
Harmonia was the ancient Greek goddess of harmony and concord. She was a daughter of Ares and Aphrodite and as such presided over both marital harmony, soothing strife and discord, and harmonious action of soldiers in war. Late Greek and Roman writers so
A goddess found, but finding, gave the strain to mortal men to hold, naming it the tune of many heads."Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13. 77 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : "Mykalessos (Mycalessus) (Bellowing-Cry) [a town in Boiotia] with broad dancing-lawns named to remind...
But Hera, high goddess, daughter of Kronos (Cronus) the mighty, went away to harness the gold-bridled horses. Then Hebe in speed set about the chariot the curved wheels eight-spoked and brazen, with an axle of iron both ways. Golden is the wheel's felly imperishable, and outside it ...
AREION (Arion) was an immortal horse born to the goddess Demeter after Poseidon raped her in the guise of a horse. It was first owned by the Arkadian Onkios (Oncius), then Herakles (Heracles) and finally Adrastos (Adrastus). FAMILY OF ARION...