Apr 11, 2023 · Apollo has been regularly featured in popular culture, though these depictions are often brief and superficial, failing to capture the complexity of his ancient personae. In both Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a book series by Rick Riordan, and the God of War video game series, Apollo plays only a small role.

Mar 8, 2023 · Apollo has been featured in a number of popular works, such as the Percy Jackson & the Olympians books by Rick Riordan and The God of War video game series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) appropriated the figure of Apollo for its famous space program, which accomplished six moon landings and safely delivered twelve ...

Jul 31, 2023 · Achilles was killed during the final year of the Trojan War, while he was still very young. There are different accounts of how he died, but in virtually all of them, he was killed by the Trojan prince Paris with the help of the god Apollo. In what became the most familiar tradition, Paris pierced Achilles in the heel with an arrow guided by ...

Nov 29, 2022 · Mars was largely based on the Greek god Ares, the Greek god of war, and shared much of his mythology. The two deities differed in at least one respect, however—while Ares was a source of destructive conflicts that tore apart communities, Mars was a wellspring of productive conflicts that brought lasting peace.

Sep 20, 2023 · Zeus eventually led his siblings in a war against Cronus and the other Titans. After winning the war and banishing the Titans to Tartarus, Zeus and his siblings—dubbed the “Olympians” because they lived atop Mount Olympus—appointed themselves the new rulers of the cosmos. Saturn by Peter Paul Rubens (between 1636 and 1638)

Jul 13, 2023 · An alternative tradition, however, claimed that Hector’s real father was not Priam but the god Apollo. According to this tradition, Apollo had had an affair with Priam’s wife Hecuba, and Hector was the result of this union. Hector Admonishes Paris for his Softness and Exhorts him to Go to War by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1786)

Apr 13, 2023 · Artemis also fended off numerous other men who threatened her chastity, including the river god Alpheus, the second-generation Titan Buphagus, and the young Sipriotes. Artemis in Homer. Like her brother Apollo, Homer’s Artemis was an ally of the Trojans and an enemy of the Greeks during the Trojan War.

Dec 7, 2022 · In another myth, Helios was making his daily journey across the sky when he happened to notice that Aphrodite, the wife of Hephaestus, was having an affair with the war god Ares. He immediately went to tell Hephaestus, who, as a master craftsman, was able to devise a crafty revenge: he wove a net so fine that it was invisible to the naked eye ...

Feb 9, 2023 · Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy, but when she rejected his amorous advances cursed her so that nobody would believe her. In literary accounts following Homer (who never mentions Cassandra’s prophetic abilities), Cassandra was constantly prophesying the fall of her city, warning her people about dangers such as Paris or the Trojan ...

Dec 9, 2022 · He wore winged shoes and flew with the help of a winged helm that Vulcan, the god of forge and fire, had fashioned for him. This winged helm soon became synonymous with the messenger god. Mercury also carried the caduceus, a staff wound with serpents that was gifted to him by Apollo. Mercury was swift and clever, and his knowledge of major ...