Myths Collection

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...

King Admetus of Pherae is spared from death only if someone else takes his place, a sacrifice his wife Alcestis willingly makes. When Heracles arrives as a guest and discovers the tragedy hidden...

In the hall of the cruel King Geirröðr, the god Odin sits in disguise between two scorching fires, tortured for eight nights. Only the king's young son, Agnar, shows compassion by bringing the...

While testing the hospitality of his foster-son King Geirröth, Odin disguises himself as a traveler named Grímnir but is captured and tortured between two roaring fires for eight nights. The...

In the ancient lands of Phrygia, an elderly couple named Philemon and Baucis offered hospitality to the gods Zeus and Hermes who were disguised as weary travelers. While their wealthy neighbors...

After escaping the goddess Calypso and surviving a devastating storm sent by Poseidon, Odysseus washes ashore on the island of Scheria. He is discovered by the princess Nausicaa, who shows him...

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...