Philemon and Baucis – Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Just a loaf of bread This is a story we only know because Ovid wrote it down in his poem, the Metamorphoses. It might be a traditional Greek story, but we don't know [...]
Just a loaf of bread This is a story we only know because Ovid wrote it down in his poem, the Metamorphoses. It might be a traditional Greek story, but we don't know [...]
Perseus and Medusa: Danae and Perseus adrift in their box Once there was a good king, but he died. His bad brother killed him so that he could be king. The [...]
This statue by Praxiteles shows the Greek god Hermes playing with the infant Dionysos(300s BC) What is Hermes the god of? Hermes is a god of boundaries, borders and edges. [...]
Hellenistic sculpture by Praxiteles: Hermes and the infant Dionysos A new Hellenistic style At the end of the 400s BC, Greece, and especially Athens, was devastated by a terrible war [...]
Norse god Loki? (Snaptun Stone, Sweden, ca 1000 AD) Who was the god Loki? Loki was the German god of tricks. He was kind of like the Indian god Krishna, [...]