after all.) That’s because the last seat on Olympus is a bit of a revolving chair. Some sources listHades, the god of the dead and the underworld, as the god that occupies the final seat. But other sources give that seat toHestia, goddess of the hearth, orDionysus, the god...
the Greek goddess of flowers, out of the lifeless body of a nymph which she found one day in a clearing in the woods. She asked the help of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, who gave her beauty; Dionysus, the god of wine, added nectar to give her a sweet scent, 正在翻译,请等待.....
Goddess of the New Year, provider of food. Her festival is March 15 and she is honored at the full moon. She was populist and always sided with the poor and unlucky.Anna Perenna Bacchus(Roman god) God of Wine and Intoxication. (Equivalent of Dionysus) He represents not only the intoxica...
Jupiter was a Roman god in Roman mythology. His counterpart in Greek mythology is Zeus. Jupiter was the King of the gods and he was married to Juno, who was the Queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage and childbirth. Answer and Explanation: ...
The daughter of Agamemnon, commander in chief of the Greek army at Troy, Electra is a central figure in the cycle of murder and vengeance in ancient tragedy.
The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.
Even more godlike, albeit in the fallible Grecian sense, was the champion wrestler Milo, also a legendary apres-competition reveler. At Olympia, he is said to have eaten an entire cow, and on a bet at a festival, he downed three choai (some nine liters) of wine. But Milo went for...
They’ve gone down the rabbit hole with me, and come back out of it. When one story ends, they wait patiently on my nightstand for the next one to begin, sparkling slyly at me whenever the table lamp is lit. They’ve sat with me on a cold rainy day, huddled under a cable knit...
the loving and kind-hearted Valentine openly defied the Emperor's demand and married off many a young couple clandestinely by quiet candlelight in castle basements and wine cellars. Pope Gelasius also disapproved of Claudius' custom and decreed that a change be made, but to no avail. Since Rom...
Nearly every unit in the military has one, and you’ve likely had to pick up his slack — that guy who is kind of a shitbag. Even in the harsh suffering and carnage of war, the human psyche still makes time for petty rivalries. It may be a leader whose personal characteristics are ...