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 ...
Iris boasts a lineage as colorful as the rainbow she personifies. Her father, Thaumas, was a marine god, while her mother, Electra, an Oceanid cloud-nymph, contributes ethereal grace to her heritage. This coupling of sea and sky shapes her godly duties. Her parentage, spanning both the wat...
Nereus was ancient Greek god, the old man of the sea, and god of the sea's rich bounty of fish. He dwelt in the depths of the Aegean with his wife Doris and fifty Nereid daughters. Nereus was depicted in ancient Greek vase painting as an old man with a w
5.) Homer thus, when he personifies Fate, conceives her as spinning, an act by which also the power of other gods over the life of man is expressed. (Il. xxiv. 525, Od. i. 17,iii. 208, iv. 208.) But the personification of his Moira is not complete, for he mentions no ...
”Footnote49Wang Chong alludes to this identification of the dragon with the thunder also in hisLung Heng.Footnote50Remarkably, in the Greek mythology, Zeus—the father (i.e., the ruler and protector) of both gods and men, was also regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain, ...