Curated playlist
Princes in Greek mythology
- HectorHector, Troy's prince, fights the Greeks knowing Troy will fall.
- Paris (mythology)Paris of Troy was left on a mountain as a baby and survived. A she-bear nursed him after a herdsman disobeyed the king.
- AchillesAchilles's famous weak heel is not in Homer's Iliad. In Book 21, a thrown spear draws blood from his elbow.
- TriptolemusTriptolemus, a hero of Eleusis in Greek mythology, stands as a boy between two goddesses in a 5th-century relief now in the National Museum in Athens. The goddesses are Demeter and her daughter, the Kore. Demeter is handing him a golden…
- JasonJason lost a sandal carrying an old woman who was really the goddess Hera. That sandal set his quest in motion.
- BellerophonBellerophon carried a sealed letter ordering his own death to a king. The king feasted him for nine days first.
- TelemachusTelemachus first met his father, Odysseus, in a swineherd's home. Odysseus was disguised as a beggar.
- AnchisesIn Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Cassius tries to talk Brutus into murdering Caesar by pointing to a famous rescue from a burning city. The man saved in that story is Anchises, a Trojan of royal blood from Greek and Roman mythology. He was…
- CadmusCadmus sowed a dragon's teeth, and armed warriors rose from the ground.
- 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…
- PeliasAn oracle warned King Pelias to beware a man wearing one sandal. Then his nephew Jason arrived wearing one.
- SisyphusSisyphus chained up Thanatos, the god of death, and no one on Earth could die.
- Nestor (mythology)Nestor talked Patroclus into disguising himself as Achilles, and Patroclus died.