Enlight Cadmus When Zeus kidnapped Europa under the guise of a bull, her father, the king of Sidon, Agenor, was saddened. Nothing could console him. He called his three sons - Foinix, Kilix and Cadmus - and sent the... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Io Hera often suffers insults from her husband Zeus. This is what happened when Zeus fell in love with the beautiful Io and, in order to hide her from his wife Hera, turned Io into a cow. But the Thunder... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Icarium Dionysus rewards people who honor him as a god. This is how he rewarded Icarius in Attica when he hospitably received him. Dionysus gave him a vine, and Icarius was the first to plant grapes in Attica... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Zetus and Amphion In the city of Thebes lived the daughter of the river god Asopus, Antiope. Zeus the Thunderer fell in love with her. Antiope had two twin sons. She named them Zeth and Amphion. Fearing her father's wr... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Zeus overthrows Cronus. The fight of the Olympian gods with the titans The beautiful and powerful god Zeus grew up and matured. He rebelled against his father and forced him to bring back into the world the children he had absorbed. One after another, Kron spewed out his... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight The suitors are preparing the death of Telemachus when he returns to Ithaca While Telemachus was in Pylos and Sparta, the suitors learned by chance from Noemon who came to them that Telemachus had left Ithaca. They were afraid because they thought that Telemachus had gone to ... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda The once glorious hero Tyndareus was expelled from his kingdom by Hippocoon. After long wanderings, he found shelter with the king of Aetolia, Thestius. King Thestius fell in love with the hero and ga... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Europe The king of the rich Phoenician city of Sidon, Agenor, had three sons and a daughter, beautiful as an immortal goddess. This young beauty's name was Europe. Agenor's daughter once had a dream. She saw... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Souls of suitors in the kingdom of Hades The god Hermes summoned the souls of the suitors from their corpses with his golden rod, with which he closed the eyes of people with sleep and drove away sleep. With a plaintive cry, souls flew after... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Daughters of Minias And in Orkhomenes, in Boeotia, they did not want to immediately recognize the god Dionysus. When the priest of Dionysus-Bacchus appeared in Orchomen and invited all the girls and women to the forests ... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeuces The wife of the king of Sparta Tyndareus was the beautiful Leda, the daughter of the king of Aetolia, Thestia. Throughout Greece, Leda was famous for its marvelous beauty. Leda became the wife of Zeus... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
Enlight Dionysus and his retinue With a cheerful crowd of maenads and satyrs decorated with wreaths, the cheerful god Dionysus walks around the world, from country to country. He walks in front wearing a wreath of grapes with an ivy-... Myths Myths of Ancient Greece
