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Mythology of Heracles
- HeraThe Greek goddess Hera renewed her virginity every year in a spring near Nauplia. The rites were not to be spoken of.
- PriamPriam, the last king of Troy, kissed the hands of his son's killer. He crossed enemy lines at night for Hector's body.
- DionysusZeus sewed the unborn Dionysus into his thigh after the child's mother died. That is why Dionysus is called twice-born.
- HeliosHeracles once aimed his bow at Helios, the Greek sun god, for scorching him. Helios then lent him a golden cup.
- Atlas (mythology)Atlas is a Titan of Greek mythology, and his name is printed on the spines of books in homes and libraries everywhere. Yet the myths describe him doing one thing for all eternity: carrying a burden that never lifted. What was it? Why was…
- MeleagerMeleager was a Greek hero honored with his own sacred precinct, a temenos, at Calydon in Aetolia. According to the Fates, his life was bound to a single piece of wood burning in his family's hearth. Only when that wood was consumed by fire…
- AlcmeneZeus stretched one night into three days to fool Alcmene. He came to her looking like her husband.
- AmazonsIn 2019, a grave near Voronezh held armed female Scythian warriors. Greeks told of Amazons.
- PrometheusPrometheus hid a live coal in a fennel stalk to bring fire back to people. Zeus had taken fire away after being tricked.
- Nestor (mythology)Nestor talked Patroclus into disguising himself as Achilles, and Patroclus died.