Myths Collection

While traveling from Delphi to escape a terrifying prophecy, Oedipus encounters an arrogant party at a narrow triple-crossroads in Phocis. A violent dispute over right-of-way leads Oedipus to...

King Oedipus of Thebes discovers that he has unwittingly fulfilled a horrific prophecy by killing his father, Laius, and marrying his mother, Jocasta. Upon the devastating revelation of his true...

After the death of Achilles, the Greek hero Ajax the Greater competes with Odysseus for the right to inherit Achilles' divine armor. When the Greek leaders award the prize to Odysseus, Ajax is...

A haunting tale of betrayal and vengeance where the Thracian King Tereus violates his sister-in-law Philomela and silences her by cutting out her tongue. Philomela communicates the crime through...

Following a bloody civil war between the sons of Oedipus, King Creon decrees that Polyneices must remain unburied as a traitor. His sister Antigone defies the royal edict to uphold divine law,...