Myths Collection

After aiding Theseus in his quest to defeat the Minotaur, the Cretan princess Ariadne was left behind on the shores of Naxos. Despairing and alone, she was discovered by Dionysus, the god of wine...

To escape the murderous plot of their stepmother Ino, the royal children Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a divine Golden Ram sent by their mother Nephele. During their flight across the sea,...

King Nisus of Megara possessed a magical lock of purple hair that guaranteed the safety of his life and his kingdom. During a siege by King Minos of Crete, Nisus' daughter Scylla fell in love...

For his seventh labor, the hero Heracles was dispatched to the island of Crete to capture a divine bull that had been driven to madness by Poseidon. After wrestling the powerful beast to...

Upon returning from the Trojan War, King Idomeneus of Crete was caught in a terrifying storm and vowed to sacrifice the first living thing he saw to Poseidon if he survived. To his horror, the...

As his eighth labor, Heracles was sent to Thrace to capture the four man-eating mares of King Diomedes. After a fierce battle with the King's army and the tragic loss of his companion Abderus,...

Following his ascent to the throne of Crete, King Minos fails to honor a sacred vow to Poseidon, leading to a divine curse upon his wife, Queen Pasiphae. Cursed with an unnatural passion for a...

As his second labor for King Eurystheus, the hero Heracles traveled to the swamps of Lerna to destroy a terrifying multi-headed serpent known as the Hydra. With the assistance of his nephew...

The Athenian hero Theseus travels to Crete to end a gruesome tribute where seven young men and seven young women are sacrificed to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster living in a complex...

Daedalus, a master craftsman, and his son Icarus were imprisoned in the Labyrinth of Crete by King Minos. To escape the island, Daedalus fashioned wings from feathers and wax, but despite his...

King Pentheus of Thebes attempts to suppress the newly arrived cult of Dionysus, only to be lured onto Mount Cithaeron in disguise. There, under the influence of divine madness, the Maenads—led...

After a grueling twenty-year absence fighting in the Trojan War and enduring a perilous sea journey, the legendary Greek hero Odysseus finally returns to his island kingdom of Ithaca. Disguised...