Mar 9, 2023 · Hecate, daughter of Asteria and Perses, was a powerful but mysterious goddess usually associated with magic, witchcraft, and the Underworld. Though often an object of …

Sep 13, 2023 · Apsyrtus was the ill-fated son of Aeetes, the king of Colchis. When Jason stole the Golden Fleece with the help of Aeetes’ daughter Medea, he and Medea killed Apsyrtus to …

Jul 14, 2025 · Badb, the “Battle Crow,” was a Celtic war goddess and a member of the fabled Morrigan. A fearsome crone, she sowed fear and confusion on the battlefield in service of the …

But Hecate, when she gave to rule the woods, Then led me trembling thro’ these dire abodes, And taught the tortures of th’ avenging gods. These are the realms of unrelenting fate; And awful …

Sep 11, 2023 · Endymion, son of Aethlius and Calyce, was a king of Elis whose remarkable beauty won him the love of Selene, goddess of the moon. In the best-known tradition, the gods …

71. I know that Hesiod in the Catalogue of Women represented that Iphigeneia was not killed but, by the will of Artemis, became Hecate. [21] 72. Butes, it is said, was a son of Poseidon: so …

Jun 28, 2023 · Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, revelry, inspiration, and fertility. His festivals famously featured intoxication and religious ecstasy.

Sep 6, 2023 · Phorcys, son of Pontus and Gaia, was a Greek sea god. He fathered a host of mythological monsters with his sister-consort Ceto. Among these terrifying …

This Hecate’s name, that Youth’s inscription bears; With forest-boughs, and vervain these she crown’d; Then delves a double trench in lower ground, And sticks a black-fleec’d ram, that …

Nov 29, 2022 · The Greek Underworld gods comprised the various deities associated with death and the afterlife. Perhaps the most important of these gods were Hades and Persephone, the …