I love Greek Mythology : Lensography of Legends

Zeus was the supreme god and ruler of Olympus with titles like Lord of the Sky, Cloud- gatherer, Rain-god and Zeus the Thunderer. He was mighty, glorious, awesome, wise and mythology's most well-known philanderer. Through this less than noble behavi...

Hermes, God of the Crossroads, is also the god of trade, profit and commerce, of story telling, quick thinking, magic, illusion, and trickery. You will also hear that among his many talents and honours, he is the God of Thieves. But Hermes himself i...

Unlike the other gods of ancient Greece, Hephaestus was not divinely handsome and beauteous of limb. To put it plainly, he was downright ugly. His feet were misshapen, his complexion hideous, he was so grotesque it was said that his mother threw him...

Poseidon was the second most powerful god of the Olympians and yet another example of the dysfunctional male divinities who plagued Greece with their childish and boorish behaviour. Despite his lamentable ways (or perhaps because of them), Poseidon...

Loud-roaring Dionysus, the son of Semele and of Zeus, is said to have invented wine and spread the art of tending grapes. A handy god to have around indeed. He is not just the god of wine, but of the madness which can follow a few days of binge drink...

Demeter, the ancient Greek Goddess of Agriculture, is perhaps best known for the abduction of her daughter Persephone, but she is much, much more. She has a powerful message for modern times. The ancient story of Demeter and her daughter Persephone...

On Mt Parnassus, the sacred ruins of Delphi run lightly down the wooded terraces. Inside the sanctuary is the Temple of Apollo where sat the famous oracle, the sacred Corycian Cave, and the Castalian Spring. Legend tells us that the shrine was origi...

Pegasus, the white winged horse, is the result of a close encounter between Medusa the Gorgon, and Poseidon the dishonourable God of the Sea. When Perseus slew the Gorgon, blood flew out of her head and mingled with the foam of the ocean and Pegasus...

In bygone Greek myth the Sirens were Naiads, lovely Nymphs of the Sea, who lived on the island of Sirenum Scopuli surrounded by sheer cliffs and sharp-toothed rocks. Approaching sailors were entranced by their glorious singing, and the lyric voices c...

Somewhere in the world, every eight seconds, a mother is throwing her hands in the air and declaring that her child is a little monster. But for Echidna it was the literal truth! Echidna was called the Mother of all Monsters but her children number...

Eve is reported to have bitten into one, or perhaps it was a quince. Hera gave some to her husband for a wedding gift, or maybe they were lemons. Golden Apples are a familiar element in legends and folk tales. Usually, a hero has to retrieve them to...

The ancient Greeks called Sisyphus the 'craftiest of men' but to us, he is the symbol of futility. Sisyphus had a particularly arduous task and not just difficult, but boring and meaningless. Through Eternity he had to roll a huge boulder to the to...

Something happened in the islands of Greece a few thousand years ago. Maybe a stray meteorite was to blame, spilling onto the plains of Attica in an invisible cloud of interstellar dust carrying the secrets of lost solar systems. How else can you ex...

The story of Troy has been told over and over in a thousand ways. I grew up with the walls of Troy more real than my own backyard fence. Indeed the backyard fence was the wall of Troy and I was always Kassandra, wailing piteously, when all I ever wan...