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Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion 's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities of deities ...
A coin featuring the profile of Hera on one face and Zeus on the other, c. 210 AC. Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.
Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is left to the audience to make a direct connection. [ 3 ] Where the connection is directly and explicitly stated (as opposed to indirectly implied) by the author, it is instead usually termed a ...
The cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied an oxcart. Reputedly, whoever could untie it would be destined to rule all of Asia. In 333 BC Alexander was challenged to untie the knot. Instead of untangling it laboriously as expected, he ...
This drawing is perhaps one of the most intense examples of the visualisation of the myth of Prometheus from the Renaissance period. Writing in the late British Renaissance, William Shakespeare uses the Promethean allusion in the famous death scene of Desdemona in his tragedy of Othello. Othello in contemplating the death of Desdemona asserts ...
Pandora's box. A pithos from Crete, c. 675 BC. Louvre. Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod 's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. [1] Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind.
Medusa is a playable character in Smite, turning enemy gods into stone. Medusa is a unit in Heroes of Might and Magic series. A Gorgon is used as a boss fight in the 2016 game Enter the Gungeon, in the game's second level. The boss is named the Gorgun to fit with the game's style of everything being gun related.
The story of Damon (/ ˈdeɪmən /; Greek: Δάμων, gen. Δάμωνος) and Pythias (/ ˈpɪθiəs /; Πυθίας or Φιντίας; or Phintias, / ˈfɪntiəs /) is a legend in Greek historic writings illustrating the Pythagorean ideal of friendship. Pythias is accused of and charged with plotting against the tyrannical Dionysius I of ...