Apr 11, 2023 · Apollo has been regularly featured in popular culture, though these depictions are often brief and superficial, failing to capture the complexity of his ancient personae. In both …

Jul 31, 2023 · Achilles was killed during the final year of the Trojan War, while he was still very young. There are different accounts of how he died, but in virtually all of them, he was killed by …

Mar 8, 2023 · Apollo has been featured in a number of popular works, such as the Percy Jackson & the Olympians books by Rick Riordan and The God of War video game series. The National …

Apr 13, 2023 · Artemis also fended off numerous other men who threatened her chastity, including the river god Alpheus, the second-generation Titan Buphagus, and the young …

Sep 20, 2023 · Zeus eventually led his siblings in a war against Cronus and the other Titans. After winning the war and banishing the Titans to Tartarus, Zeus and his siblings—dubbed the …

Nov 29, 2022 · Mars was largely based on the Greek god Ares, the Greek god of war, and shared much of his mythology. The two deities differed in at least one respect, however—while Ares …

Jun 28, 2023 · As a god of theater and the arts, Dionysus was associated in particular with music and dance. He was the god of drama, an art that evolved (according to Aristotle) from the …

Thus they above: while, swiftly gliding down, Apollo enters Ilion’s sacred town; The guardian-god now trembled for her wall, And fear’d the Greeks, though fate forbade her fall. Back to …

Apr 12, 2023 · Ares was the god of war and violence. More specifically, he was associated with “the most objectionable aspects of war” —with violence and conflict for its own sake. Unlike his …

Feb 9, 2023 · Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy, but when she rejected his amorous advances cursed her so that nobody would believe her. In literary accounts following Homer …