Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...

No longer seen as a joyless fate, the afterlife became more of ... Those of the great gods on the Greek island of Samothrace took place at night, with flickering torch fire pointing the way ...

Many people have heard the name of Orestes, a prominent figure of ancient Greek mythology, but how many of us know his ...