Garden of Hesperides – Labors of Herakles
Herakles (on the left) frees Prometheus (now in the Louvre) on his way to the Garden of Hesperides Another labor of Herakles Herakles was a Greek hero. He killed his [...]
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Hero and Leander – a Greek story
Leander swimming to Hero (from Pompeii) Who was Hero? In this Greek version of an old story, Hero was a priestess of Aphrodite, whose father sent her to live alone in [...]
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Nemean Lion – Labors of Herakles
Herakles fighting the Nemean Lion - Athenian black-figure vase, 500s BC For the first of his labors, Herakles had to go out and kill a great lion that lived in [...]
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Augean Stables – Labors of Herakles
Herakles cleaning the Augean Stables (Metope from Olympia, ca. 460 BC) Another Labor of Herakles For one of the Labors of Herakles, Herakles had to clean out the cattle stables of King [...]
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Herakles and Cerberos – Greek mythology
King Eurysthenes hides in a jar, while Hercules threatens him with his dog Cerberus Herakles' last labor For the last and toughest of his twelve labors, Herakles had to get the [...]
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Cassandra and the fall of Troy
The Cassandra myth: Ajax the Lesser drags Cassandra away from the statue of Athena Apollo curses Cassandra Cassandra was a priestess of Apollo in Troy before the Trojan War. She was very [...]
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Herakles and Busiris – Labors of Herakles
Hercules kills the Egyptians (Athens, 400s BC) Another Herakles story In this story, Herakles traveled to Egypt, where he met the king of Egypt, the Pharaoh Busiris. Who is Herakles? New Kingdom Egypt More [...]
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Atreus and Thyestes – House of Atreus – The Curse
Who were Atreus and Thyestes? Atreus and Thyestes were brothers, the sons of Pelops and Hippodameia. The brothers grew up together and played together. Greek mythology made easy All our Ancient Greece articles But [...]
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Arion and the dolphins – Greek mythology
Arion and the dolphins: a lyre player and his helper (probably enslaved) (Greece, about 680 BC, now in the Getty Museum) Arion was a great singer Herodotus tells us that in [...]
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Arachne and Athena – the Arachne story in Greek mythology
The Arachne story: Greek women weaving at a warp-weighted loom - Athens, 500s BC Who was Arachne? Arachne was a girl who lived in Greece a long long time ago (in the story; this [...]
