The ancient Greek gods, the immortal characters of Greek mythology, remain a fascination around the world as do their unusual ...

People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and ... Others frozen in horror, their mouths open, the screams still on their lips. It was as if they had ...

It’s got a soothing, whitewashed color palette. The characters seem ... island that’s inexplicably home to a handful of Greek gods who have no idea who they are or what they’re doing there.

He was also a psychopomp, a figure who leads souls in their journey to the underworld. According to Hamilton, he shows up more often in Greek mythology than any other god. As goddess of the harvest, ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek ... also believed that many of their gods had played an ...