10 Feared Female Creatures of Greek Mythology
Have you ever thought about why so many leading ladies in ancient Greek mythology are usually in the guise of wicked witches, devious femme fatales, evil goddesses and fearsome monsters? I’m no...
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Have you ever thought about why so many leading ladies in ancient Greek mythology are usually in the guise of wicked witches, devious femme fatales, evil goddesses and fearsome monsters? I’m no...
The ancient Greeks believed that existence does not end with death; there is no death, only a transition from one state of being to another; every human died only to live again...
Dedicated to my daughter Nais (Νάϊς) If I begin by telling you, that the word for the uncontrollable desire in men, to have lots of physical pleasure, especially with different partners;...
Could the twelve Days of Dionysus, a no-holds-barred celebration of the birth of the Greek god of wine and fertility, held just after the winter solstice, in the second half of the...
The ancient Greeks knew the star Canis Majoris by various names: Sirius; derived from the Greek word Σείριος (Seirios), meaning glowing or scorching and Sothis – Σῶθις (also the Egyptian word for...
For thousands of years the moon has been both worshiped and feared in Greece, even Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician and father of Western medicine, understood the power of the moon and...
All’s fair in love and war, or so they say. Back in ancient Greece though, love had much more to contend with, such as vengeful and envious gods, or Apate; the personification...
There’s a story behind everything and behind the following five world famous logos, the story is Greek. Greece has given so much to the world that most of the time we don’t...
The ancient Greeks were always one step ahead, whatever they put their mind to, they did it well; philosophy, architecture, mathematics, literature; they were the leaders. Did you know though, that they were...
March 21 and April 19 The Greek myth associated with the zodiac sign of Aries is that of the Golden Fleece; the Chrysomallus (best known from the story of Jason and the Argonauts),...