Mythology

• Thaumas

  The early Greeks, with their extraordinary power of personifying all and every attribute of Nature, gave a distinct personality to those mighty wonders of the deep, which, in all ages, have afforded matter of speculation to educated and uneducated alike.…

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• Theseus and the Minotaur

  The Minotaur Table of Contents The Minotaur was a terrible monster with the body of a man, and the head of a bull, born from the union of Pasiphae and the bull offered as a gift to Minos by Poseidon. …

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• Themis

  Goddess of Justice, Law, and Order Table of Contents Themis was the goddess of Justice, Law, and Order. Themis, who has already been alluded to as the wife of Zeus, was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and personified those…

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• Triton

  Triton and the Tritons. Triton was the only son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, but he possessed little influence, being altogether a minor divinity. He is usually represented as preceding his father and acting as his trumpeter, using a conch-shell for…

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• Tyche

  Table of Contents Tyche personified that peculiar combination of circumstances which we call luck or fortune, and was considered to be the source of all unexpected events in human life, whether good or evil.  If a person succeeded in all…

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• Uranus and Gea

  Chaos Table of Contents The ancient Greeks had several different theories with regard to the origin of the world, but the generally accepted notion was that before this world came into existence, there was in its place a confused mass…

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• Winds

  Aeolus Table of Contents According to the oldest accounts, Æolus was a king of the Æolian Islands, to whom Zeus gave the command of the winds, which he kept shut up in a deep cave, and which he freed at…

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• Zeus

  Ruler of Heaven and Earth Table of Contents Zeus, (Jupiter, Ζεύς, Δίας) the great presiding deity of the universe, the ruler of heaven and earth, was regarded by the Greeks, first, as the god of all aërial phenomena; secondly, as…

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