It can be said that the main reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union was the major economic problems, due to the hi…

What Was The Pony Express? If you receive a message and pass it on to someone else, you are acting as a relay. Relays…

12 October 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovers America - painting by John Vanderlyn. When we say "discovered…

Tyche personified that peculiar combination of circumstances which we call luck or fortune, and was considered to be th…

The Sphinx was an ancient Egyptian divinity, who personified wisdom, and the fertility of nature. She is represented as…

Graeae Sisters (The Grææ), who acted as servants to their sisters the Gorgons , were also three in number; their names …

The Gorgons, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, were the three daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, and were the personification of…

Morpheus, the son of Hypnus , was the god of Dreams. He is always represented winged, and appears sometimes as a youth,…

Thanatos - God of Death and his twin-brother Hypnus (Sleep) were the children of Nyx . Their dwelling was in the realm …

Nyx, the daughter of Chaos, being the personification of Night, was, according to the poetic ideas of the Greeks, consi…

The Harpies, who, like the Furies, were employed by the gods as instruments for the punishment of the guilty, were th…

Aïdes, Aïdoneus, or Hades, was the son of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest brother of Zeus and Poseidon. He was the …

Dionysus, also called Bacchus (from bacca, berry), was the god of wine, and the personification of the blessings of Nat…

Ares, the son of Zeus and Hera, was the god of war, who gloried in strife for its own sake; he loved the tumult and hav…

Poseidon was the son of Kronos and Rhea, and the brother of Zeus. He was god of the sea, more particularly of the Medit…

Artemis was worshipped by the Greeks under various appellations, to each of which belonged special characteristics. Thu…