Greek and Roman Myths

The gods had given Heracles every grace of body and mind, but there was one thing he must do for himself: choose how to use them.

Heracles, a child of Zeus, is endowed with astonishing physical strength and skill, but does he also have strength of character to match?

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Artemis, goddess of the hunt, pursued a bitter and relentless vengeance upon a king who carelessly slighted her.

Calydon was an ancient city in Aetolia, on the west coast of mainland Greece near modern Missolonghi. The tale tells how Artemis, goddess of the hunt, took spiteful revenge on a king who slighted her.

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When he caught his wife with her lover, the ugly blacksmith of the gods showed that he was not without his pride.

While Odysseus is in the court of King Alcinous, a court musician entertains them with the story of Hephaestus. He was the lame and ugly blacksmith to the gods, whom Zeus instructed Aphrodite to marry so that the other gods would stop fighting over her — a solution which did not solve anything at all.

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