In the Greek myth, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon with a stronghold on Mount Korydallos at Erineus, on the sacred way between Athens and...

THE MINOTAUROS (or Minotaur) was a bull-headed monster born to Queen Pasiphae of Krete after she had coupled with a bull. The creature resid...

Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. Dionysos holding a fr...

ARIADNE was the immortal wife of the wine-god Dionysos According to this tradition, Ariadne put an end to her own life in despair, or was...

Did you know the tradition of Father Time with his toga and scythe giving up his place to the Baby New Year is based on the story of Kronos ...

KRONOS (or Cronus) was the Titan god of time and the ages, especially time where regarded as destructive and all-devouring. He ruled the c...

Pegasus at the spring, Apulian red-figure vase C4th B.C., Tampa Museum of Art Pegasus is one of the best kn...

Pegasus and Perseus with the head of Medusa - Peter Paul Rubens      Now she pulled her cowl down again. Her hair writhed with the ser...

Nonnus, Dionysiaca 31. 13 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : “As Medousa was slain [by Perseus], the neck was delivered of its twin...

From Medusa's dead body the giant Chrysaor and the winged horse Pegasus, her son by Poseidon, sprang forth.  Chrysaor was often depict...