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Is the Greek legend of Jason and the Argonauts true? The history of Jason and the group of Greeks known as the Argonauts is one of the o...

    A ghost is the apparition of a disembodied spirit. From earliest times the belief has prevailed that the souls of the dead return to h...

   Hecate is a mythological Greek goddess, daughter of the Titan Perseus. Her powers extended into heaven, earth, and the lower world. Hecat...

   Cornucopia was the horn of plenty, a symbol of abundance. In Greek legend the cornucopia was a horn of the goat Amalthea, which fed the...

   In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of love and son of Venus. He is identified with the Greek god Eros. In some accounts, Cupid is a han...

   Cyclops, in Greek mythology, a one-eyed giant. According to Homer's Odyssey the Cyclopes were shepherds of Sicily. Savage and canniba...

   Deucalion, in Greek mythology, an ancient Greek king, the son of Prometheus and Clymene and the husband of Pyrrha. When Zeus, angered by ...

   The people of ancient Greece thought that the earth was flat. Down below it, they believed, there was a great, gloomy region to which peo...

   In Greek myth, the Gorgones or Gorgons were three female monsters. Homer mentions only one, a frightful creature dwelling in Hades; but H...

   In Greek mythology, Leda was the wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta. Zeus fell in love with Leda and used to visit her, disguised as a ...

   Hector is a character in Homer's Iliad; leader of the army of Troy in the Trojan War famed for valor. The eldest son of Priam ant Hec...

   In Greek and Roman mythology, the Fates were the three sisters who controlled man's destiny. They were the daughters of Jupiter. Clot...

    The Gordian knot was a famous knot in Greek mythology. The Phrygians, having elected as king a peasant named Gordius, he dedicated hi...

   The roc or rukh was a legendary bird of gigantic size, known from the stories in the book of the Arabian Nights . The roc resembled an ea...

   In Greek mythology, Hyperborean was one who lived beyond Boreas, or the North Wind. According to Greek legend, the Hyperboreans lived so ...

   Furies, in Roman mythology, were three goddesses of the underworld. To the Greeks they were known as Erinyes. Their names were Alecto, ...

   Before the days of science people in many different parts of the world made up stories to explain the world as they saw it. They told sto...

   Minotaur, Greek mythol­ogy, a monster represented as having the body of a man and the head of a bull. The name means bull of Minos. The b...

   Hymen was at first the name of a marriage song among the Greeks. Later it became the name of the god of marriage. Hymen was supposed to...

   Valkyries, in northern mythology, the daughters or attendants of Odin, goddesses of fate. Clad in full armor and on horse-back, they rode...