Myths Collection

To avoid a prophesied marriage, the swift huntress Atalanta challenged her suitors to a deadly footrace, only to be outwitted by Hippomenes and three divine golden apples.

When the mortal hero Peleus married the sea-nymph Thetis on the slopes of Mount Pelion, the gods gathered for a celebration of unprecedented scale. However, the exclusion of Eris, goddess of...

According to ancient Greek myth, the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, was born from the white sea foam produced by the severed genitals of the sky god Uranus. She emerged fully grown from...

The Judgment of Paris is a pivotal event in Greek mythology where the Trojan prince Paris was forced to decide which of the three Olympian goddesses—Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite—was the most...

During the Trojan War, the Greek hero Diomedes undergoes a period of divine empowerment granted by the goddess Athena. With his vision cleared to perceive the gods themselves, he dares to attack...

The abduction of Helen, the Spartan queen, by the Trojan prince Paris was the event that sparked the legendary Trojan War. Driven by the promises of the goddess Aphrodite, Paris violated the...

When Hippolytus, the chaste son of Theseus and a devotee of Artemis, rejected the advances of his stepmother Phaedra, she falsely accused him of assault before taking her own life. Driven by...

Upon discovering the secret affair between his wife Aphrodite and the god of war Ares, the master smith Hephaestus forges an invisible, unbreakable golden net. He traps the lovers in their bed...

The tragic myth of Myrrha follows a princess of Cyprus cursed by Aphrodite with an unnatural passion for her own father, King Cinyras. After a desperate deception leads to her pregnancy, she...

The beautiful youth Adonis, loved by the goddess Aphrodite, meets a tragic end during a hunt near the sacred grotto of Afqa. Despite warnings to avoid dangerous beasts, Adonis is mortally gored...

Clytie, an Oceanid water nymph, fell deeply in love with the sun god Helius but was eventually abandoned for the princess Leucothoe. Driven by jealousy, Clytie revealed the affair to the...

Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite in Sestos, and Leander, a young man from Abydos, fell deeply in love despite the treacherous Hellespont separating them. Every night, Leander swam across the strait...