Who is Hera? Ancient Greek gods
The Greek god Hera was the sister and wife of Zeus. Greek god Hera Hera is the sister and wife of Zeus (the Greeks did not approve of this arrangement for real [...]
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Who is Hephaistos? Ancient Greek gods
The Greek god Hephaistos' forge is a volcano. What is Hephaistos god of? The Greek god Hephaistos (heh-FAIS-toss) is the blacksmith god, the god of volcanoes and hot fires and smelting metal ore [...]
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Who is Hades? – ancient Greek gods
Hades and the underworld In Greek mythology, Hades was the god of the dead, who ruled the place where dead people went after they died (Sometimes people also called the underworld "Hades"). [...]
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Greek religion – ancient Greece
Greek religion: Athena protects her worshippers (Andokides Painter, ca. 520 BC)W Where did Greek religion come from? Greek religion was a mixture of old Minoan beliefs, Central Asian gods that the Yamnaya brought to Greece, West [...]
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Greek mythology made easy
Kidnapping Helen of Troy (from Pompeii) A lot of Greek myths in alphabetical order - read them all! Achilles Actaeon Agamemnon Ajax Antigone Arachne Arion Atreus and Thyestes Cassandra Daedalus [...]
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Greek gods and their stories
Greek gods on the Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, ca. 530 BC What is polytheism? People in ancient Greece believed in many gods: they were polytheistic (PA-lee-thee-ISS-tick). It is impossible to say how [...]
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Who is Gaia? Early Greek gods
Gaia is the earth. In the beginning... Many people in classical Greece believed that at the beginning of time there was only one being, which they called Chaos. (This is not unlike the Jewish [...]
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Who are the Furies? Greek mythology
The Furies torment Orestes Red-figure vase from South Italy ca. 380 BC (Naples Archaeological Museum) Scary spirit women In Greek mythology, the Furies were terrifying female spirits of the underworld who frightened men [...]
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Eleusinian Mysteries – a Greek mystery cult
Eleusinian Mysteries: Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos (the boy), an 1899 drawing from a stone carving found at Eleusis . When did the Eleusinian Mysteries start? Beginning at least as early [...]
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Persephone project – Greek mythology
Persephone project: Hades kidnaps Persephone (Greek painting from the Hellenistic period) Put on a play for your class, or make a short film about Persephone, or write a book or [...]
