By the late 5th century BC, certain philosophers had begun to draw a distinction between two separate "Aphrodites" (as opposed to a single Aphrodite whose characteristics varied slightly in different ...
Aphrodite was Adonis' lover and a surrogate mother to him. Cinyras, the King of Cyprus, had an intoxicatingly beautiful daughter named Myrrha. When Myrrha's mother commits hubris against Aphrodite by ...
Aphrodite, perhaps altered after aphrós (?φρ??) "foam", stems from the more archaic Cretan Aphordíta and Cypriot Aphorodíta, and was probably ultimately borrowed from Cypriot Phoenician. Herod ...
Hephaestus, being the most unfaltering of the gods, was given Aphrodite’s hand in marriage by Zeus to prevent conflict over her between the other gods. The gods were fighting over her so much, they f ...
The image of Hermes evolved and varied according to Greek art and culture. During Archaic Greece he was usually depicted as a mature man, bearded, dressed as a traveler, herald, or pastor. During Clas ...
In Ancient Greece, Hermes was a phallic god of boundaries. His name, in the form herma, was applied to a wayside marker pile of stones; each traveller added a stone to the pile. In the 6th century BCE ...
Coined in 1387, the word hero comes from the Greek ?ρω? (hērōs), "hero, warrior", literally "protector" or "defender". Before the decipherment of Linear B the original form of the word was assum ...
When Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on terra-firma, or the mainland, or any island at sea. Poseidon gave pity to Leto and guided ...
The name of Hera admits a variety of mutually exclusive etymologies; one possibility is to connect it with Greek ?ρα hōra, season, and to interpret it as ripe for marriage and according to Plato ...
Main article: Religion in ancient GreeceRemains of the temple of Apollo at Corinth.Central to Greek religion in classical times were the twelve Olympian deities headed by Zeus. Each god was honored wi ...
Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Pindar's Odes are included as sacred texts as are other works of classical antiquity. These are the core texts that were considered ...
While there were few concepts universal to all the Greek peoples, there were common beliefs shared by many.TheologyAncient Greek theology was based on polytheism; that is, the assumption that there we ...
Early humanists saw no conflict between reason and their Christian faith (see Christian Humanism). They inveighed against the abuses of the Church, but not against the Church itself, much less against ...
