Myths Collection

On his journey from Troezen to Athens, the hero Theseus encountered Sinis, a giant bandit who murdered travelers by lashing them to bent pine trees. Theseus overcame the villain and executed him...

Actaeon, a celebrated hunter of Thebes and grandson of Cadmus, accidentally stumbles upon the goddess Artemis while she is bathing in a secluded spring on Mount Cithaeron. Outraged by the...

Ixion, the King of the Lapiths, committed the grave sin of kin-slaying and was unexpectedly offered redemption by Zeus on Mount Olympus. However, consumed by hubris, Ixion attempted to seduce...

King Phineus of Thrace was cursed with blindness and the constant torment of the Harpies, monstrous bird-women who stole and fouled his food. This divine punishment lasted until the arrival of...

Palamedes, a brilliant prince of the Heroic Age, was credited with transforming human civilization through his inventions of the Greek alphabet and dice. During the long preparation for the...

After the murder of King Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, the young prince Orestes is forced into exile. Years later, commanded by the god Apollo, Orestes returns to...

During his legendary journey from Troezen to Athens, the hero Theseus encountered the robber Sciron on the treacherous cliffs of Megara. Sciron forced travelers to wash his feet at the edge of a...

On his journey to Athens, the hero Theseus encounters the bandit Procrustes, who tortured travelers by forcing them to fit into one of two iron beds. Theseus defeats the rogue by subjecting him...

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...

At the onset of Ragnarök, the world-ending battle of Norse mythology, the god of justice and law, Tyr, meets his final adversary in Garmr, the blood-stained hound that guards the gates of the...

After the death of Baldr, the trickster Loki fled to the mountains and transformed into a salmon to hide within a waterfall. He inadvertently invented the fishing net while contemplating how the...

Following a bitter legal dispute and the loss of his property rights in Norway, the legendary warrior-poet Egil Skallagrimsson performed a powerful ritual of scorn known as the nithing pole. By...