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The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a great tragic myth. Orpheus gets in love with nymph Eurydice and when she dies, right after their wedding, he descends to the Underworld. There he convinces the God of the Dead, Pluto, to allow his wife to come back to Earth so that they could lead a normal life.
In Ancient Greek mythology Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. According to her myth when she wept in sorrow and grief her tears were transformed into flowers and as they fell to the ground they blossomed into anemones.
In Homer's Iliad, the goddess Artemis cries after a scolding from Hera at 21.493–6, for example.
In Classical Greek mythology, Phobos exists as both the god of and personification of the fear brought by war. In Roman mythology, he has also been referred to as Pavor or Terror.
In Greek mythology, Oizys (/ˈoʊɪzɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ὀϊζύς, romanized: Oïzýs) is the goddess of misery, anxiety, grief, depression, and misfortune. Her Roman name is Miseria, from which the English word misery is derived.
Ares' status: “most hated of all the gods”
Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera. There is a famous passage in the Iliad where Zeus refers to Ares as the god that he hates the most. The exact lines are the following (Il. 5.890–891):
Hestia was shy and modest, timid and an introvert, however, she had one special characteristic. She opposed the idea of marriage and in love affairs with anyone who wanted her. Many remarkable lovers and among them important Gods had from an incredibly early age tasted her categorical rejection.
Cursing his fate that had doomed him to do what he had meant not to do, he blinded himself, as he could not bear to see the children he had fathered with Jocasta, his wife and mother. Jocasta for her part hanged herself. Oedipus, in disgrace, left his country, and, as a blind beggar, wandered in the countryside.
When clouds weren't blocking her view, Artemis gazed down on Orion as he roamed around his deserted island, and she fell in love with him. But there was a problem: The gods could not mingle with the mortals. Artemis knew this but couldn't resist.
MINOS AND THE MINOTAUR
One of the most visually unsettling Greek myths, the tale of Minos and the mutant Minotaur never fails to capture creative imaginations.
They say when it rains that it's tears for her children pouring down on to the island. ' So, Aphrodite's Tears refers to that watchful presence; a mother yearning for her son to find happiness and a family of his own.
When Orpheus' wife died, he traveled into the Underworld to try and get her back. On his way through the Underworld, Orpheus sang a sorrowful melody, accompanied by his lyre. After hearing the mournful tune, Hades was moved to pity for Orpheus and cried an iron tear.
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most beautiful and sad in Greek mythology. In the story, Orpheus, the greatest poet, and musician in history tries to reclaim his wife, Eurydice, who has passed away. To save his loved one, Orpheus will travel to the underworld and back.
There is also the Rhesus, the shortest Greek tragedy we have, which may be by Euripides. Other tragedians whose work is now lost include Phrynichus, Choerilus and Pratinas—all of whom wrote before Aeschylus—and the sons of Phrynichus and Pratinas who belonged to the generation of Aeschylus and Sophocles.
Hades, Greek Aïdes (“the Unseen”), also called Pluto or Pluton (“the Wealthy One” or “the Giver of Wealth”), in ancient Greek religion, god of the underworld.
A God with No Name is an original take on the history of god and tells the story of his evolution from a lowly Canaanite tribal deity up to his present position as a being of universal power and prestige.
Odin has many names and is the god of both war and death. Half of the warriors who die in battle are taken to his hall of Valhalla. He is the one-eyed All-Father, who sacrificed his eye in order to see everything that happens in the world.
Polyphemus, in Greek mythology, the most famous of the Cyclopes (one-eyed giants), son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and the nymph Thoösa. According to Ovid in Metamorphoses, Polyphemus loved Galatea, a Sicilian Nereid, and killed her lover Acis.
Who is Aphrodite? Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans.
Euphrosyne is a goddess of good cheer, joy and mirth. Her name is the female version of the word euphrosynos, "merriment".
Hades is the least awful of the gods, mainly because as opposed to everyone else he is basically just doing his job. It's just modern depictions always tend to make him the villain.
Homer's Ares was bloody and merciless and while god of war, was a coward who cried in pain and when wounded, runs away.
1) Kali. Kali often appears as a dark or angry goddess with blue skin, a garland of skulls and a knife, her tongue red with the blood of those she devours. In each of her origin stories, she emerges through anger to destroy evil forces. In one tale, two demons attack the goddess Durga.
According to Lucian, Alectryon was said to have been 'an adolescent boy, beloved of Ares, who kept the god company at drinking parties, overindulged with him, and was his companion in lovemaking'.