The city of Crotone, a historic jewel of Magna Graecia, is embracing its Greek heritage with the addition of a new, imposing ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Her mother, the Greek goddess of agriculture, Demeter, then scoured the Earth for her lost daughter. Persephone's dad is Zeus ...

In this, the ancients looked to Hades, god of the underworld, brother of Zeus and Poseidon ... Those of the great gods on the Greek island of Samothrace took place at night, with flickering ...

Greek mythology often reads like a soap opera for deities. One moment Zeus condemns a traitor to have his liver pecked apart by vultures for eternity, the next he disguises himself as a swan so he can ...

They are not based on facts or reality ... Atlas bore the weight of the heavens on his shoulders. A Greek myth is that Zeus, a God, threw down lightning bolts on to earth when he was in a rage.