Before gargoyles protected the buildings of Europe, the fearsome Gorgons served a similar purpose. The Gorgons were monsters, whose faces tu...

Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors." Poseidon, the Lord of the Sea a...

Italian Painting Avignon in four panels and more than six meters length, the Master of Cassoni Campana tells the legend of Theseus and the M...

Atalanta was a virgin huntress, unwilling to marry, and loved by the hero Meleager. Atalanta was a disappointment to her father because s...

Theseus and Pirithous were among the company of heroes that hunted the Calydonian Boar.  The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek...

Theseus and Pirithous fight a centaur attempting   to steal a bride from a wedding party Thousands of years before there were ...

Sir Arthur Evans (far left) Sir Arthur John Evans was an English archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the ...

PASIPHAE was an immortal daughter of the sun-god Helios. She was the mother of "starlike" Asterion, called by the Greeks the Minot...

Queen Pasiphae seated on a throne attended by a maiden and old Trophos (her nurse?) receives the wooden cow from the artisan Daidalos. Eros,...

The creature had the head and tail of a bull on the body of a man. Before he ascended the throne of Crete, Minos struggled with his ...