Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

The goddess of the bees in ancient Greece was Melissa. According to Greek mythology, a nymph had revealed to her ... having advanced in their art, were engraving much more realistic bees, which ...

Famously mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony in the 8th century B.C.E., Nyx is one of the oldest deities in Greek mythology. The primordial goddess of the night, Nyx gave birth to numerous offspring, who ...

According to Hamilton, he shows up more often in Greek mythology than any other god. As goddess of the harvest, Demeter’s story provided the Greeks with an explanation for why we have seasons. When ...

Egypt arguably had one of the most complex sets of gods and goddesses. Ancient Egyptian ... you and teach you some things about this complex mythology.

Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf; engraving by Hendrik Goltzius ... And what’s with the full moon? In Greek myth, silver was a gift from the moon goddess, Selene, and in the Bible, it is seen ...

Prints and multiples, Hand-colored dry-point etching and engraving on Japanese paper. The goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite had become involved in a competition to judge the greatest beauty. Zeus ...

Many of the female characters are courageous warriors and huntresses, and the goddess Athena herself embodies one of the most important of the cardinal virtues: wisdom. Compelling and insightful, ...

Killed in God of War 2. Though the game doesn't refer to the Fates as goddesses, Greek mythology considers them as such, and they're also some of the most powerful deities out there, since they ...

It combines Greek mythology with lighthearted charm, following the adventures of Pit, a winged hero tasked with saving the goddess Palutena. The original NES game became a cult classic for its ...

The birth of AphroditeAphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...