The Word Panic Originates From the Greek God Pan
The word Panic, Panikos in Greek, meaning a sudden sensation of fear, overwhelming anxiety or agitation; a feeling so strong as to often block out reasonable and logical behavior, is derived from...
Category: Greek Mythology
Hera – Queen of the Greek Gods
Hera (Roman – Juno), queen of all Greek Gods, is the goddess of women, marriage, childbirth, children and family. long and happy. Hera was the third daughter of Cronus (Saturn),...
The Antikythera Mechanism – The World’s first Computer
Over two thousand years ago the ancient Greeks were able to calculate when the first lunar eclipse was about to occur. Even more amazingly they did it with the aid of the...
Chaos in Greek Mythology – The Creation of Everything
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty” Genesis According to Greek mythology, the original meaning of the Greek word chaos means...
Pandora’s Box – The Greek Myth Behind the Creation of Man
Pandora’s Box is one of the most loved Greek myths. However, saying that, to fully understand this marvelous myth and how Pandora came to be the first mortal woman on earth, the...
Why is Greece Called Hellas and who are the Hellenes?
How did Greece come to be called Hellas (Eλλάς- Ellás, Eλλάδος- Elládos) and why were Greeks named Hellenes? The who, what, when and where, when talking about the Greeks, could go on forever,...
How the Aegean Sea Got Its Name – The Myth of King Aegeus
The ancient Greeks were admirable story-tellers. In this tragic myth, telling us of how the Aegean Sea, located between mainland Greece and Turkey, got its name, a wonderful but sad tale, there’s...
The Dionysia – Festivals of Dionysus – God of Wine and Ecstasy
The ancient “Dionysia”, also called the Bacchanalia, festivals dating back to the fifth century BC, dedicated to Dionysus (Latin-Bacchus), God of wine, theater, fertility and ecstasy, are said to be the origins of...
Ancient Greek Origins of Saint Valentine’s Day
There’s a Greek connection to everything and it seems it’s no coincidence that St.Valentine’s Day fell in the ancient Greek month of Gamelion (February), the month of love, lust and marriage! Not...
The Twelve Labours of Heracles – Greek Mythology
The story of how ancient Greek hero, Heracles (Roman – Hercules), came to be assigned his twelve laborious labours, by King Eurystheus of Tyrins, begins with the tale of a woman scorned and...
