You'd be wrong to think the ancient Greek gods bled red like you and me, as ichor was the substance that defined their ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...

“It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess ... was ritually treated with perfumed oils. On the Greek island of Delos, ...

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic traditions in literature and poetry and was deeply inspired by ancient ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...

Take Greek mythology, for example ... can be used to refer to anything that seems impossible. This includes the real-life, interspecies animals humans have successfully created.