She was the goddess of wisdom and war ... In a passage in the Iliad, Ares speaks with Zeus after Athena aided the Greek soldier Diomedes to wound him. He complains to Zeus, saying: A common ...

The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...

When it comes to Greek mythology, myth and legend, fairy tales and fantasy, can be just as informative as historical facts.

Kratos is known for beating down literal gods in God of War, even going as far as killing them. Here are the gods that he ...

Greek gods and goddesses have been among ... and the son of Zeus. Portraits of Athena, the goddess of war, and Pluto, the god of the underworld, have also been popular this summer, he says.

An Augustan Roman marble copy of the head of Medusa. GLYPTOTHEK MUSEUM IN MUNICH In Ovid's Roman retelling of the Greek myth, ...

In fact, entasis is the Greek word for tension or swelling ... to celebrate the birthday of the goddess Athena. [The procession was part of the Panathenaic, or "all-Athenian," festival, the ...