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Greek Mythology – Mythopedia Greek mythology is the body of work detailing the origins of the ancient Hellenic world and the many deities who ruled over it It includes the histories of gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, as well as explanations for many important religious rituals
Catalogues of Women and Eoiae (Full Text) - Mythopedia 4 “And from Hellen the war-loving king sprang Dorus and Xuthus and Aeolus delighting in horses And the sons of Aeolus, kings dealing justice, were Cretheus, and Athamas, and clever Sisyphus, and wicked Salmoneus and overbold Perieres ” 5 Those who were descended from Deucalion used to rule over Thessaly as Hecataeus and Hesiod say 6
Metamorphoses: Book 4 (Full Text) - Mythopedia The labour too of Sisyphus is vain, Up the steep mount he heaves the stone with pain, Down from the summet rouls the stone again The Belides their leaky vessels still Are ever filling, and yet never fill: Doom’d to this punishment for blood they shed, For bridegrooms slaughter’d in the bridal bed Stretch’d on the rolling wheel Ixion lies;
Metamorphoses: Book 13 (Full Text) - Mythopedia In shades below; where Sisyphus, whose son This thief is thought, rouls up the restless heavy stone), Just Aeacus, the king of Gods above Begot: thus Ajax is the third from Jove Nor shou’d I seek advantage from my line, Unless (Achilles) it was mix’d with thine: As next of kin, Achilles’ arms I claim; This fellow wou’d ingraft a
Persephone – Mythopedia Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the wife of Hades, and the queen of the Underworld Her most important myth tells of how Hades abducted her, then tricked her into eating something in the Underworld so that she could never leave Not even her mother, Demeter, could bring her home
Tityus – Mythopedia Tityus was an extraordinarily large and strong mortal who was killed when he attacked the goddess Leto He was sent to Tartarus for his crimes, where he lay outstretched for all eternity as vultures or snakes devoured his innards
Iliad: Book 6 (Full Text) - Mythopedia “A city stands on Argos’ utmost bound, (Argos the fair, for warlike steeds renown’d,) Aeolian Sisyphus, with wisdom bless’d, In ancient time the happy wall possess’d, Then call’d Ephyre: Glaucus was his son; Great Glaucus, father of Bellerophon, Who o’er the sons of men in beauty shined, Loved for that valour which preserves mankind
Sisyphus – Mythopedia Sisyphus was a Greek king famous for his cunning He was so clever, in fact, that he managed to cheat Death himself and live a longer life than the gods had intended But this later backfired: his actions angered the gods, and when he finally did die, he was forced to suffer eternal punishment in Tartarus
Hydra – Mythopedia The Hydra, a child of the Greek monsters Typhoeus and Echidna, was a creature with multiple serpent heads It lived in the swamps of Lerna in Greece, where it terrorized the region’s inhabitants until it was slain by the mighty Heracles
Aeneid: Book 6 (Full Text) - Mythopedia The Argument — The Sibyl foretells Æneas the adventures he should meet with in Italy She attends him to hell; describing to him the various scenes of that place, and conducting him to his father Anchises, who instructs him in those sublime mysteries of the soul of the world, and the transmigration; and shews him that glorious race of heroes which was to descend from him, and his posterity