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 [...]
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09, 2017
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07, 2017
Perseus and Medusa – Greek mythology
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 [...]
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07, 2017
Who is Hermes? Ancient Greek god
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. [...]
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07, 2017
Hellenistic Greek sculpture
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 [...]
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06, 2017
Who was the Norse god Loki?
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, [...]
