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Hecate [a] is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, [4] and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied. She is variously associated with crossroads, night, light, magic, protection from witchcraft, drugs, the Moon, graves, and ghosts.
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion 's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities of deities ...
In Greek mythology, Theseus, mythical king of the city Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, the Athenians would commemorate this by taking the ship on a pilgrimage to Delos to honour Apollo. A question was raised by ancient philosophers: After ...
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion .
The most important divine struggle in Greek mythology was the Gigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants and the Olympian gods for supremacy of the cosmos. It is primarily for this battle that the Giants are known, and its importance to Greek culture is attested by the frequent depiction of the Gigantomachy in Greek art.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Thomas Bulfinch. Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes. 1855 (Chapter XVIII). Categories: Princesses in Greek mythology Queens in Greek mythology Family of Calyce Women of Ares Metamorphoses characters Aetolian characters in Greek mythology Suicides in Greek ...
Agreus and Nomios In Greek mythology Agreus or Argeus ( Ancient Greek: Ἀγρεύς, Ἀργεύς means 'hunter' or 'wild' [1]) and his brother Nomios (Νόμιος means "shepherd") are two of the Pans, creatures multiplied from the god Pan.
Olethros. In Ancient Greek mythology, Olethros / ˈɒlɪˌθrɒs / ( Greek: ὄλεθρος) was the personification of havoc and probably one of the Makhai. [citation needed] Olethros translates roughly in ancient Greek to "destruction", but often with a positive connotation, as in the destruction required for and preceding renewal.