GREEK LITERATURE

GREEK LITERATURE

They were believed to be the controllers of the life of human beings.

Edith Hamilton

One of the most prominent authors that wrote about Greek mythology, who compiled and retell the stories of gods and goddesses, as well as other Greek stories.

ZEUS (Jupiter)

God of the sky and the king of Olympus

POSEIDON (Neptune)

God of the Sea and the Protector of all waters.

HADES (Pluto)

God of the Underworld

HERA (Juno)

Goddess of Fertility and Marriage

ATHENA (Minerva)

Goddess of Wisdom

APHRODITE (Venus)

Goddess of Love and Beauty

APOLLO

God of music and healing

ARES (Mars)

God of War, Son of Zeus and Hera

HEPHAESTUS (Vulcan)

God of fire and forge

HERMES (Mercury)

Messenger god

DEMETER (Ceres)

Goddess of Harvest and Agriculture

HESTIA (Vesta)

Goddess of Hearth

DIONYSUS (Bacchus)

God of vines

SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS REX

Oedipus has become the king of Thebes while unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father, Laius (the previous king), and marry his mother, Jocasta (whom Oedipus took as his queen after solving the riddle of the Sphinx).

EURIPIDES’ ELECTRA

It tells the tale of Electra and her brother, Orestes, as they take their revenge on their mother, Clytemnestra, for her murder of their father, Agamemnon