It provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy. As a primary source for Greek myth, as a ...
This book offers a humorous telling of many stories from Greek Mythology. One gets the well-known tales such as Prometheus, Sisyphus, and Pandora, but also the myths involving a number of lesser-known characters: god, demi-god, and mortal. As these myths are being told, there is also a ...
1、Greek Mythology 希腊神话希腊神话 Greek Mythology is a group of traditional tales told by the ancient Greeks about the deeds of gods, heroes and their relations with human beings. 希腊神希腊神话讲话讲了很多古希腊的故事,有神、英雄的故事以及他了很多古希腊的故事,有神、英雄的故事以及他们们和...
In researching and writingAn Altar of Indignities, I came to discover the Hill of Ardittos and the Temple of Artemis Agrotera, and their importance in the mythology and history of the landscape of ancient Athens. Both became settings in the book and the story is the richer for it. When I...
Aura means “soft breeze” in Greek. It was the name of the Titan of the breeze as well as fresh and crisp morning air in Greek mythology. Aura has a rather tragic story, as Zeus ultimately made her into a fountain. In new age practices, Aura takes on another meaning as the emanation...
The Cancer constellation, which is also the fourth sign of the zodiac, lays between the constellations Leo (the lion) and Gemini (the twins). It looks similar to an upside Y in the night sky and it can be very difficult to see it with the naked eye becau
Taiyin xing is commonly equated with Chang’e, goddess of the moon in Chinese mythology. However, Journey to the West chapter 95 depicts her as a separate deity and the leader of an unknown number of Chang’e moon goddesses (cf. Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 4, p. 302). Fig. 15 – A ...
12、full grown in armor from his forehead, thus has no mother.AphroditeGoddess of love, desire and beautyShe represented sex, affection and the attraction that binds people together.Aphrodite is called Venus in the ancient Roman mythologyHer son is Eros who is called Cupid in the ancient Roman...
reminds us that sometimes love can be just as cyclic and enigmatic as the phases of the moon. What is clear is that she, like so many others from her pantheon, had a knack for turning metaphors into tangible whimsy—a narrative move on mythology's chessboard which spins endlessly like an...
Then she became pregnant and gave birth to Liu Bang.”Footnote 53 The early Chinese mythology Shanhaijing relates a similar story about the conception of the ancient king Fu Xi 伏羲 whose image is often associated with the dragon: “A big footprint came out of the Lake of Thunder. Hua Xu...