Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...
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 ...
A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...
When it comes to Greek mythology, myth and legend, fairy tales and fantasy, can be just as informative as historical facts.
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.
The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...
An Augustan Roman marble copy of the head of Medusa. GLYPTOTHEK MUSEUM IN MUNICH In Ovid's Roman retelling of the Greek myth, ...