In Greek mythology Leto was one of the female Titans, a bride of Zeus, and the mother of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. She was the goddess of motherhood and, with her children, a protectress of the young. When Leto was pregant with the twins she was
Erotes riding birds, Greco-Roman mosaic from Utica, Bardo National Museum Simonides, Fragment 67 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric III) (C6th to 5th B.C.) : "Who tuned his lyre for songs of the sweet love of boys, songs with the scent of the Kharites (Charites, Graces) and ...
Hera was not mollified, however. She also kidnappedEileithyia, the goddess of childbirth,and kept her from serving as Leto’s midwife. For nine long days, Leto remained in labor. At last, the goddess Artemis was born, and she served as a midwife for her mother. A day later, Apollo w...
Of course, there a lot more animals in Greece including sea turtles, wolves, bears, birds and insects. Check out our animals section for a full list of animals from around the world. Photos: Greek Mythology Photos Greece On-Line Jigsaw PuzzlesPoem...
Dione was one of the early birds in the goddess stakes. In fact she was on the scene so early that no-one else seems to have been around to make notes for posterity. The fact that her name is a feminine form of Zeus just adds to the confusion. She may have started off as ...
youngest son of Uranus; and Zeus) by means of her oracular gifts. Aristotle, inMetaphysics, Book XII, asserted that some “theologians” derive all things from night. This idea fits the theogony of Aristophanes’Birds. Throughout antiquity Nyx caught the imagination of poets and artists, but ...
Time to explore the not-so-feathered friends of Greek mythology—Harpies! These creatures are what would happen if someone mixed a bird of prey with a really angry person. Harpies had the bodies of birds—think giant, terrifying eagle-like wings—and the faces of humans. They were the livin...
One day after that, a man named Teiresias came to Athena while she was in a river and the goddess blinded him out of shock, but she also gave him the ability to understand birds. When Hephaestus tried to get into a relationship with her, he kept going towards her until he got his ...
Capturing the Ceryneian Hind, which was sacred to the goddess of the hunt, Artemis Killing the Stymphalian birds, which plague the Stymphalian Lake Cleaning the Augean stables in one day Capturing the Cretan Bull (who would later be slain by Theseus) Steal and tame the man-eating mares ...
She was the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. She and Ceyx were a very happy couple, but then Ceyx died in a shipwreck and Alcyone threw herself into the sea (what can you do? She was a silly young girl then). The gods took pity and turned the two into birds (Alcyone became ...