Instead of a doomed planet or a rich family in a dark city, she hails from an island of women right out of Greek myths ... Woman's genetic ties to Zeus mean that several gods and demigods are ...

Greek mythology often reads like a soap opera for deities. One moment Zeus condemns a traitor to have his liver ... God of wine and ecstasy, and Hestia, goddess of the family hearth. Dionysus, though ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing ... Heracles was Zeus’s son. He was so strong he could kill a ...

Many Greek gods and goddesses were associated ... was the son of Zeus and Hera — the king-father and queen-mother of the other gods in the Pantheon family. With their constant bickering ...

We meet Homer, famous writer of Ancient Greece, who introduces us to the Olympians - twelve of the most important gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece - and also Ancient Greek beliefs about the ...