Myths Collection

After Apollo mocks the god of love, Eros retaliates by striking Apollo with a golden arrow of desire and the nymph Daphne with a leaden arrow of revulsion. This leads to a relentless pursuit...

Arethusa, a chaste nymph of Artemis, is pursued by the river god Alpheus after she unknowingly bathes in his waters. To escape his advances, she is transformed into a subterranean stream that...

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...

King Midas of Phrygia is granted a wish by Dionysus and chooses that everything he touches turn to gold, only to find it a deadly curse when he cannot eat or drink. After being cured by the River...

In the ancient Cretan city of Phaistos, a woman named Telethusa hides her daughter's gender to save her from a husband who decreed only sons should live. The child, Iphis, is raised as a boy and...

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...

King Lycaon of Arcadia, seeking to test the divinity and omniscience of Zeus, served the god a banquet containing the cooked flesh of a human sacrifice. Enraged by this ultimate violation of...

The nine daughters of King Pierus, known as the Pierides, challenged the divine Muses to a musical competition on the slopes of Mount Helicon. While the sisters sang of the gods' cowardice during...

In the Phrygian region near Tyana, Zeus and Hermes descended in disguise to test human hospitality. After being rejected by an entire city, they were welcomed by the impoverished elderly couple...

While walking on the slopes of Mount Cyllene, the young man Tiresias encountered two mating serpents and struck them with his staff, causing him to instantly transform into a woman. After living...

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...

When the trickster god Loki mischievously shears the golden hair of Sif, he is forced by Thor to find a replacement, leading him to the underground forges of the Sons of Ivaldi. The master...