Sisyphus was the first king of Corinthia (known as Ephyrae) and thought that he could trick the gods, a really naive assumption and a sure way to be doomed. According to Homer, it is written in The Iliad, book VI , that Sisyphus was the son of Aeolus, the god of the winds. He was …
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The Underworld where all the dead have to live (?) Is the kingdom attributed by Zeus to Hades. The dark, taciturn and quite frightening god lives in his kingdom with his wife Persephone when she is not staying with her mother, the goddess Demeter. It is an invisible kingdom only accessible to the dead. At …
“Sing to me oh Muse… Oh please sing to me…..” Hesiod — Theogony “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story… Homer —The Odyssey- The Muses were the daughters of the mighty Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne, his aunt, the goddess of memory in Greek mythology. Mnemosyne conceived the nine Muses after sleeping with …
It is extremely difficult to identify a god as he or she can take any appearance. Firstly and most importantly a god is immortal and does not grow old. He or she is never unwell , never suffer any illness or pain. They eat nectar and drink amboisie, which are supposed to be the best …
For the ancient Greeks the most powerful manifestation of nature was the wind or more accurately the winds. The wind would change the seasons, bring the clouds and the needed rain but also punish men with hail, storms and thunder. The wind would either protect the soil or let it be parched and scorched by …
17- THE MOIRA OR THE FATES the 3 goddesses who determined human destinies especially the duration of one’s life and his share of misery. Latin name : the Parcae : Nona, Decuma, Morta There were 3 sisters: Clotho : the spinner determines the thread of human fate, Lachesis : the alloter who dispenses the good and bad …
Greek Mythology has always been fascinating. That is why countless generations have been transmitting their extraordinary lives and adventures for about 3000 years. There were numerous gods and goddesses in Ancient Greece, each river, each whiff of wind was represented by a dedicated god or goddess. It allowed the men to understand their universe, to …
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In the time of Homer, around 750 and 650 BCE , Hesiod was a celebrated poet who is to our days still the major source about Greek mythology. He is also described as “the father of Greek Didactic Poetry” and the “first economist “. He himself attributed his poetic gifts to the Muses, who appeared …
«Declare to me from the beginning, you Mousai who dwell in the house of Olympos, and tell me which of them first came to be». In truth at first Khaos (Air) came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Earth), the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos, and …
Chaos — the Void : Everything, everyone comes from the first reality which is Chaos, the void, the emptiness, the absence, the nothingness. According to Hesiod’s “Theogony” around 700 BCE, the first primordial entities to come out of Chaos were : Eros : the embodiment of love but more importantly the reproductive force. Without this force, …
