Ibises African Sacred Ibis “The African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is a species of ibis, a wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae. It is native to much of Africa, as well as small parts of Iraq, Iran and Kuwait.[1] It is especially known for its role in the religion of the Ancient Egyptians, where it…
Category: Ancient Greece Mythology
Medusa: Clash of the Gods
“Clash of the Gods.” History Vault, watch.historyvault.com/shows/clash-of-the-gods. Accessed 6 Sept. 2022. Medusa Met Her Fate in the Parthenon, which was Athena’s Temple. Poseidon – God of Sea and Storms and Earthquakes Poseidon raped the Virginal Medusa. Athena punished Medusa by turning her into a monster whose hair was a nest of writhing, poisonous snakes. To make…
Perseus, Andromeda, and the Sea Monster
ANDROMEDA AND THE SEA-MONSTER As Perseus journeyed over land and sea on his great quest, he often thought of the dear mother he had left in Seriphus. Now that his task was done he longed to fly over the blue waters of the Mediterranean to see her, to know that she was safe from the cruel…
Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/dangerous-beauty. Accessed 6 Sept. 2022. “The exhibition publication explores the ways in which Medusa and other hybrid creatures were depicted from antiquity to the present day.” The Met “Beginning in the fifth century b.c., the Gorgon Medusa—a legendary monster whose gaze could turn…
Perseus and His Quest to Kill the Gorgon Medussa
THE QUEST OF PERSEUS Medusa and her two sisters were named the Gorgons. The sisters had always been plain and even terrible to see, but Medusa had once been fair to look upon. When she was young and beautiful her home was in a northern land where the sun never shone, so she begged Athene to…
Danae and the Tower – The Birth of Perseus
When you think of a hero, you think of a man who does brave, unselfish deeds. But to the Hellenes or Greeks a hero was one who was half god, half man—whose one parent was a god while the other was a mortal. So the god Zeus was the father of Perseus, the hero of…
Athena and Arachne
CHAPTER IV THE BIRTH OF ATHENE One day Zeus was ill. To us it is strange to think of the gods as suffering the same pains as mortals suffer, but to the Hellenes it seemed quite natural. Zeus was ill. His head ached so severely that he bade all the gods assemble in Olympus to find…
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
Dorothy Mills – 1925 Mills, Dorothy. The Book of the Ancient Greeks. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925. CRETE AND THE CIVILIZATION OF THE EARLY AEGEAN WORLD CHAPTER I THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD To the people of the ancient world the Mediterranean was “The Sea”; they knew almost nothing of the great ocean that lay beyond the…
Persephone and the Great God Pan
THE GREAT GOD PAN by Mary MacGregor MacGregor, Mary. The Story of Greece. London, T. C. and E. C. JACK, Ltd., 1914. The supreme god of the Hellenes was Zeus. He dwelt in the sky, yet on earth, too, he had a sanctuary amid the oak-woods of Dodona. When the oak-leaves stirred, his voice was heard,…
Pomegranate Seeds – by Nathaniel Hawthorne – A Greek Myth about Persephone and Hades
Note: In Ancient Greek Mythology, Demeter was the goddess who was called Ceres in Ancient Rome. Persephone was the Ancient Greek goddess who was called Ceres in Ancient Rome. The Pomegranate Seeds By Nathaniel Hawthorne Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just…