The story of Scylla and Glaucus is a kind of twisted tình yêu story. Before I begin, let me tell bạn of Glaucus. Glaucus was a young man, a fisherman, and one day, after a long ngày of fishing, Glaucus emptied his catches onto the ground. Much to his suprise, the cá - some dead for hours, began to revive and "run" back to the ocean and swim away. For a một phút Glaucus thought he was insane, but then he looked closer at the spot where he'd emptied his nets. There were some strange looking herbs on that particular spot, and being the intelligent young man that he was, Glaucus leaned over and picked...

The story begins with Pandion, the King of Athens. bạn see, he married his maternal aunt, Zeuxippe. Now, Apollodorous doesn't SAY anything about the Gods punishing him for this kind of marriage (the only such marriage in Greek legend, according to the Perseus Project), but I think that is a possibility considering what happened to his family. Pandion and Zeuxippe had two daughters, Procne and Philomela, and twin sons, Erechtheus and Butes1. But Pandion wasn't much of a father, he was much thêm interested in his kingdom, and when Athens went to war with Abdacus, Pandion called on Tereus, his...

In Crete, long long ago, there lived a kind named Minos. This king was married to a daughter of the Sun (Helios) named Pasiphae. Together they had many children, four sons and four daughters, but it was his daughters who's lives were remembered. One in particular is often sung of, and that was the fair Ariadne.

Among sweet Ariadne's family there was included a fearsome beast, the Minotaur, who was sent as a punishment upon the family. Pasiphae had coupled with a bò đực, con bò, bull to have this son (the mischief of the Gods was at fault), but when he was born, the he was a monster. Pasiphae couldn't kill her...

Be warned: this story is beautiful but tragic. It begins with Orpheus, the best musician that ever lived. One strum of his lyre, one note sung, and beasts would crawl to him, rocks would shift their moss to di chuyển to be closer, trees would tear their roots to be closer to him. He had thêm power than a mortal man ought to for he was the son of the Muse Calliope.

He lived his life simply and carelessly until the ngày he met Eurydice. She was a Dryad, and when they fell in tình yêu it meant everything to them. But the rustic god Aristaeus saw Eurydice's beauty and desired it, and did not care that she...

The story isn't long, but it does seem important. It has continued to be represented in art and in story (though there have DEFINITELY been some changes made to make it fit into the new cultures), but it was also super important in ancient Greece, where sacrifices were made in a festival in his honor. Rituals were done in his name. I will probably forget to follow up on this and read thêm các bài viết about why, so if bạn know, bạn should email me!

Anyway, a short summary is made bởi Apollodorus (1.9.19), which I will translate myself (since I don't like Frazer's translation at all here):
"For Hylas,...

Everyone knows what a philanderer Zeus was, in fact, I'm sure it was something of a family joke on Olympus. But Hera wasn't laughing. She knew her husband cheated on her just about every một giây of the day, but she wasn't going to just sit there and watch it. No, Hera spent just about every một giây of HER ngày trying to curb her hubby's "appetite." You'd think that Hera would take most of her anger out on her husband, but nooooooo. Hera spent all her destructive vengeful energy on the poor female (or in SOME cases male) who happened to be Zeus' current plaything.

The object of today's story is...

Our story begins with Echo and Zeus. That ever-cheatin' God was at it again, this time with the mountain nymphs of Kithairon, of whom Echo was one. Now, at that time (just in case bạn may have picked up on the significance of her name) Echo was a nymph like any other and a very talkative one at that. And while Zeus was dilly-dallying with Echo's sisters, Hera was NOT a happy camper. She had followed Zeus, expecting JUST that kind of behavior out of him. She came down to Earth to apprehend her "too-much-love-for-one-woman" husband, but Zeus, being godly, sensed her coming. Echo bit the bullet...

The story begins before the birth of either Andromeda hoặc Perseus. In the land of Argolis there was a great warrior-king named Abas. He was a man so mighty that even after he died the sight of his shield would send rebels to the royal house scattering in fear. He had two twin sons to whom he gave the responsibility of ruling the kingdom. He charged that they should each rule a year, and then switch. But the twins, Acrisius and Proetus, weren't content with this arrangement, and when Acrisius refused to give up the ngôi vua, ngai vàng at the end of his term, Proetus launched a bloody assualt on the kingdom....

The name "Psyche" means "Soul" and her union with Eros (aka Cupid) tells the story of how tình yêu and Soul came to be together. bởi the way, this story is Roman, not Greek, but it works just as well with the Greek, so that is how I shall tell it. This myth had an enormous impact on fairy tales for the tiếp theo couple of thousand years.

Long, long cách đây a king had three daughters. Psyche, who was the youngest of the three daughters, was so incredibly beautiful that people in her village and outlying areas STOPPED praying to Aphrodite, taking Psyche for the Goddess of Beauty instead. That wasn't too good,...