2022年12月8日 · Sisyphus was a cunning and deceitful king of Corinth who cheated Death twice. Learn about his etymology, family, mythology, and the origin of his famous stone-rolling punishment in Tartarus.
2023年1月6日 · Thanatos was the pitiless and relentless god or daemon who represented the fate of all mortal beings. He was the son of Nyx and the twin brother of Hypnos, and he appeared in some myths and artworks as a messenger of death.
2023年9月18日 · Tityus was a son of Zeus and a mortal woman, or a son of Gaia, who tried to rape Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis. He was killed by one or both of the gods and tortured in Tartarus by vultures or a snake.
2022年12月8日 · Tantalus was a king of Anatolia, usually said to have ruled in Mount Sipylus, who offended the gods by betraying their trust or stealing from them. He was punished by being immersed in a pool of water and surrounded by fruit trees that receded whenever he tried to …
Read the full text of Book 6 of the Iliad, where the Greeks prevail over the Trojans in battle and Hector returns to the city. See the episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, Paris and Andromache, and Agamemnon's mercy and rage.
2022年12月7日 · Hades was the ruler of the dead and the Underworld, a dark and gloomy realm. He had a helmet of invisibility that he lent to Perseus, the hero who killed Medusa.
2023年4月28日 · Odysseus was a cunning and intelligent king of Ithaca who fought at Troy and wandered for ten years. His name has various possible origins and meanings, but it may be related to anger, lamentation, or perishing.
2023年7月5日 · Laertes was the king of Ithaca and a hero who fought in the Argonauts and the Calydonian boar hunt. He was the father of Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, who returned home after a long absence and found his father still alive.
2023年3月9日 · The Erinyes, also known as the Furies or Eumenides, were ancient deities who punished crimes against family and blood-guilt. They were born from the blood of Uranus and lived in the Underworld, where they tormented Orestes for killing his mother.
2023年3月9日 · Tartarus was a dark and grim entity that came into existence with Chaos, Gaia, and Eros. He was the father of Typhoeus and the home of many sinners, including the Cyclopes, who were freed by Zeus to help him overthrow Cronus.