The Mythology A naiad daughter of Cocytus, the Underworld river of wailing and lamentation. She was thought to be incredibly beautiful, but the life of a nymph is usually a lonely one; they tended to have very little contact with the outside world. She was a consort to Hades and Read more…
And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartaros and the unfruitful sea and starry heaven, loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor. It is a great gulf, and if once a man were within the gates, he would not reach Read more…
The ancient myths tell that Persephone was abducted by Hades and forced to live with him in the Underworld as his Queen. This version of the story is so infamous that it is commonly told as the ‘Rape of Persephone’. According to legend, Persephone, daughter of Demeter, Goddess of the Read more…
A jealous and powerful god Being the ruler of the Mediterranean Sea, he is described as gathering clouds and calling forth storms, but at the same he has it in his power to grant a successful voyage and save those who are in danger, and all other marine divinities are Read more…
Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, the only Olympian with a mortal parent During the course of her pregnancy, the god’s jealous wife Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus to appear before her in his full glory. Bound by an oath on the River Styx, the god was Read more…
“When, under Hades’ semblance, Zeus divine deceived with guileful arts dark Persephone. Hence, partly black thy limbs and partly white, from Hades dark, from Zeus ethereal bright. Thy coloured members, men by night inspire when seen in spectred forms, with terrors dire; now darkly visible, involved in night, perspicuous now Read more…
Titan Pallas Mythological Origins Greek/Roman God of Warfare. A Titan who fought against Zeus’s rebellion. Father of Zelos (Emulation) Nike (Victory) Kratos (Strength) Bia (Force) Selene (Moon) Eos (Dawn) by Styx (Hate). Some tradition also holds that he was the father of Athene, by whom he was slain. ”Pausanias, Description Read more…
“We are three brothers born by Rhea to Kronos, Zeus, and I, and the third is Hades, lord of the dead men. All was divided among us three ways, each given his domain. I when the lots were shaken drew the grey sea to live in forever; Hades drew the Read more…
The souls that throng the floodAre those to whom, by Fate, are other bodies owed,In Lethe’s lake they long oblivion taste,Of future life secure, forgetful of the past. Virgil Lethe is one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld, and the personification of forgetfulness. When spirits are ready to Read more…
Eris is generally accepted to have two sides to her; one of benefit to man, the other of detriment. She encompasses the rivalry that encourages men to toil and work hard to better themselves, but she’s also representative of the strife found in war, and was suggested to be the Read more…