Greek Gods

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

Jul 10, 2026

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in Ancient Rome, Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Gods, Metamorphoses, Ovid, Poetry, Roman Empire, Ted Hughes

Paolo de Matteis, 9 February 1662 – 26 January 1728, Italian painter. Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them…

The Laurel Wreath

Jun 12, 2026

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Mark

in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Apollo, Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Gods, Ovid, Poetry, Roman Empire

To the Romans, like the ancient Greeks before them, the laurel was sacred. The Greeks believed the laurel groves were the sacred dwelling places of the gods and nymphs. The Romans adopted the laurel wreath, and it became a symbol of military victory, worn by generals leading their troops in a triumph, on their arrival back…

Myth – A world of the imagination

Dec 12, 2025

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Mark

in Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Gods, Greek Mythology, Roman mythology, zeus

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”– Aeschylus, Agamemnon The Greek gods were not local in their interests or powers: they held sway over the whole world. Ancient Greeks had access to a huge reserve of fabulous tales about these gods’ about a very different universe, one full of not…

Category: Greek Gods

Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

The Laurel Wreath

Myth – A world of the imagination