The article discusses box office revenue for U.S. motion pictures in foreign countries, focusing on the revenues of the film "Immortals," which was the top-grossing U.S. film in foreign revenue in the second week of November, 2...
In the Iliad, Aphrodite is stated to be the daughter of Zeus, the King of the Gods and his secret lover, Dione, one of the Oceanids. In both editions she made it to Mount Olympus becoming one of the Twelve Olympians. Other stories Other myths involving Aphrodite, (not in chronological...
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taught the Indians the cultivation of the vine and of various fruits, and the worship of the gods; he also founded towns among them, gave them laws, and left behind him pillars and monuments in the happy land which he had thus conquered and civilized, and the inhabitants worshipped him as...
In addition he can shapeshift, an ability he used to walk the mortal plane as a human.Who is Zeus? Who is Zeus? Zeus, the father of gods and men, ruler heavens and the skies, was the king of the gods, the sky, law, order, destiny and fate, and kingship in Ancient Greek ...
Pallas was a companion of Athena's. In their childhood war games, Athena accidentally slew Pallas. She took on the title "Pallas" so that she would pay homage to her fallen friend.Navigationv • e Olympian Gods Olympians : Aphrodite • Apollo • Ares • Artemis • Athena • ...
: "And Semele, daughter of Kadmos was joined with him [Zeus] in love and bare him a splendid son, joyous (polygethes) Dionysos,--a mortal woman an immortal son. And now they both are gods."Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysus (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : "...
in a murderous rage,that he is proud of.Instead he is tricked by the Gods into massacring a herd of farm animals,whom Ajax mistakes for Ulysees and his friends.Was Ajax blinded in a binge of alcoholic excess,or did the Gods actually smite him with a crushing(to Ajax's ego),...
In South. See Demeter. Sorrow that eateth up the soul! Dam of the Gods! The green Earth’s Queen! This is Thy Name. I Come, Control And Pass! I know Thee, Lady of Eleusis! I know Thee, & I pass Thee by. For more than Thou am I! In North East. …..! Who clu...
: "Tantalos (Tantalus) is punished in Haides by having a stone impending over him . . . Pelops, after being slaughtered and boiled at the banquet of the gods, was fairer than ever when he came to life again, and on account of his surpassing beauty he became a minion of Poseidon."...