The cult of the ancient Greek goddess Athena allowed certain Athenian women liberties that extended beyond the roles of ...

Greek mythology is full of unknown gods remaining in the shadows of the well-known Zeus, Ares, or the patroness of hunting, ...

The birth of Aphrodite Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...

Originally characterised as singing and dancing goddesses guarding a sacred spring, evidence for the muses is found in writing by some of the earliest known authors. Hesiod and the Muse by Gustave ...