Lead to the Trojan War Peleus (son of the king of Aegina Aeacus) and Thetis (a Nereid) were married and therefore gave a wedding. Each God and Goddess were invited to this party, except Eris, the Goddess of the Twist. Eris could not swallow and therefore decided to take revenge. She took three golden apples, [...]
The birth of Zeus Cronus had defeated his father Uranus and was head of the Titans. He married his sister Rhea, the pattern of marriages between a sky god and a mother who represented the earth and fertility. They had six children namely: * Demeter (grain pushes beneath the earth by the ground up) * [...]
The legend of Icarus / Icarus Icarus was the son of Daedalus genius, his mother was Naucrate. Icarus himself was not endowed with the genius of his father, he was very stupid indeed. Daedalus is the brilliant designer of the famous labyrinth on Crete. He designed the labyrinth by king Minos. In the labyrinth attended [...]
Overall Hephaestus Hera is put on the world without a father. Probably they did this out of vengeance, because Zeus Athena bore (after his first wife Metis was swallowed). It appeared that Hephaestus was lame, so Hera repudiated her son. This they did by him from Mount Olympus to throw in Oceanus. It was Thetis [...]
The birth of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) About the birth of Aphrodite stories doing the rounds, the most famous of all is the following: Uranus Gaea married, he fathered several children with her. Once they were born he closed them again in the belly of their mother. Gaea are suffering unbearable pain, the unkindness [...]
The life of Herakles Youth Herakles’ parents were Zeus and princess Alcmene, a mortal. Alcmene was pregnant with twins: Herakles and Iphicles. It is striking that Iphicles had a different father, because the husband of Alcmene: Amphitryon. As baby Herakles had been extremely strong, so he killed two snakes that the wife of Zeus, Hera, [...]
Overall Homer was the first who wrote about the place where, according to both the Greeks and Romans, their deaths were going to go. The Greeks and the Romans went to the underworld soul somewhere deep in the earth would be. A place where no ray of sunlight could penetrate and where the god Hades [...]