Mythology

  • Winds

    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…

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  • Bronze statue of Zeus with arms spread in a throwing motion

    Zeus

    Zeus

    Ruler of Heaven and Earth 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 the…

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