GREEK MYTHOLOGY

A characteristic of Greek gods were depicted with human qualities, emotions, and flaws.

Anthropomorphic

Has numerous Gods and Goddesses

Polytheistic

A story about hero myths with the themes honor, fate and mortality

Mythology

A story of a series of daunting tasks assigned to the legendary hero as penance for killing his wife and children in a fit of madness induced by Hera

The 12 Labors of Hercules

A story of Jason, seeking to reclaim his stolen throne, embarks on a perilous quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis.
Assembling a crew of legendary heroes, the Argonauts, he sails the Argo, facing numerous trials including harpies, clashing rocks, and treacherous encounters.

Jason and the Argonauts

A mythology about Perseus, son of Zeus and Danaë, was tasked by King Polydectes to bring back the head of Medusa, a Gorgon whose gaze turned men to stone. Aided by the gods, who provided him with winged sandals, a helmet of invisibility, and a reflective shield, Perseus journeyed to the Gorgons' lair.

Perseus and Medusa the Gorgon

The young lovers' families hate each other and forbid them to get married. They find a crack in the wall that separates their houses, and through it, they whisper and profess their love for each other.
Still, Pyramus and Thisbe were willing to do anything to be together.

• Pyramus and Thisbe

An ancient Greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills. His music and grief so moved Hades, king of the underworld that Orpheus was allowed to take Eurydice with him back to the world of life and light.

• Orpheus and Eurydice

The Father of Greek Didactic Poetry

• Hesiod

details the origin and genealogy of the Greek gods, from the very beginning of the universe to the establishment of Zeus's reign

THEOGONY

advocates for a virtuous life lived in harmony with the gods and the natural world

WORKS AND DAYS

blind poet and mythological geographer

Homer

story of the wrath of Achilles sparked by Agamemnon's seizure of his war prize, Briseis

ILIAD

Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War

ODYSSEY

the Bee of Ancient Greek literature

Sophocles

A Greek tragedy that tells the story of King Oedipus of Thebes, who is fated to kill his father and marry his mother

OEDIPUS REX