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Hace 4 días · May 25, 2024. For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living creatures to stone ...
Hace 1 día · Hḗrā; Ἥρη, Hḗrē in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. In Greek mythology, she is queen of the twelve Olympians and Mount Olympus, sister and wife of Zeus, and daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea.
Hace 4 días · Along with Circe and Medusa, other female villains from Greek epics and tragedies are getting resurrected and redeemed in fiction. The murderous Queen Clytemnestra, who killed both her husband, the warrior Agamemnon, and his war concubine, the Trojan princess Cassandra, gets center stage in novels by Costanza Casati and Susan C. Wilson.
Hace 5 días · Eleusinian Mysteries, most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece. According to the myth told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the earth goddess Demeter ( q.v.) went to Eleusis in search of her daughter Kore ( Persephone ), who had been abducted by Hades (Pluto), god of the underworld. Befriended by the royal family of ...
Hace 5 días · At the fin de siècle women were engaged in aeronautics (ballooning, aviation) on a scale never before seen (Wright). Connotations of social change and feminist liberation quickly attached themselves to this socio-technological development, the female aeronaut posing as a suffragette. 1 In their respective contexts, turn-of-the-century Ohio and Calcutta, self-aware female aeronauts such as ...
Hace 4 días · Ambrosia and nectar in Greek Mythology. In Greek mythology, the gods lived on a diet of ambrosia and nectar – food and beverages symbolizing their divine nature and bestowing immortality. Consuming these substances granted the gods everlasting life and maintained their eternal youth.
Hace 5 días · Labours of Hercules, the 12 labours, or tasks, assigned to the Greco-Roman legendary hero Hercules (Heracles) by King Eurystheus. Traditionally, Hercules was the son of Zeus, the chief deity among the Greek gods, and Alcmene, a mortal princess whom Zeus tricked into sleeping with him. Hercules.
