Adam and Eve – Bible stories
Adam and Eve eating the apple. The woman in the tree is the snake (Notre Dame Cathedral, 1200s AD) The Creation of Man According to the Book of Genesis in [...]
Adam and Eve eating the apple. The woman in the tree is the snake (Notre Dame Cathedral, 1200s AD) The Creation of Man According to the Book of Genesis in [...]
An island turned out to be a whale Sinbad was (as Sheherazade told the story) a trader from Baghdad. He sailed his trading ships all around the Persian Gulf and [...]
Herakles as a baby, on a red-figure vase from Athens (400s BC) Herakles/Hercules You might think you already know all about Hercules (the Greeks called him Herakles) from watching the Disney [...]
Herakles fights the Hydra (Athenian red-figure vase, ca. 475 BC, Palermo, Sicily) Another labor for Herakles King Eurystheus then told Herakles he had to go kill the Hydra for another one of [...]
The god Apollo was a sun god Apollo's family ties Apollo is a younger god, the son of Zeus and the nymph Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo's [...]