Encyclopedia Mythica is the premier encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and religion. Instant mythology since 1995.

The body of traditional tales concerning the gods, heroes, and rituals of the ancient Greeks. Critical Greeks, such as Plato in the 5th-4th century, recognized the considerable element of fiction in the myths, although in general the Greeks viewed them as true accounts.

Established in 1995, the Encyclopedia Mythica is dedicated to become the single largest resource on mythology and folklore on the internet. The present edition contains thousands of articles about deities and beings from all corners of the world, and new articles are added frequently.

Greek people. The vast number of heroes, kings, warriors, seers, and other characters from Greek mythology and legend that make up the rich collection of stories, adventures, and epics.

The collective myths of the Scandinavians (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland). The main sources for Norse mythology, Indo-European in origin, are the Icelandic Eddas.The shaping of Norse mythology itself took place in Germanic Europe, including those elements of the myths which were current in Scandinavia in the millennium before that.

1997年3月3日 · The greatest of the Olympian gods, and the father of gods and men, was a son of Cronus and Rhea, a brother of Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and at the same time married to his sister Hera.When Zeus and his brothers distributed among themselves the government of the world by lot, Poseidon obtained the sea, Hades the lower world, and Zeus …

1997年3月3日 · Hermes, a son of Zeus and Maia, the daughter of Atlas, was born in a cave of Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, 1 whence he is called Atlantiades or Cyllenius; but Philostratus 2 places his birth in Olympus.. In the first hours after his birth, he escaped from his cradle, went to Pieria, and carried off some of the oxen of Apollo. 3 In the Iliad and Odyssey this tradition is not …

Recommended reading. Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.; Herod (ed. Robin Waterfield, Carolyn Dewald). (2014).

Dionysus. The youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and Romans Bacchus (Βάκχος), that is, the noisy or riotous god, which was originally a mere epithet or surname of Dionysus, but does not occur till after the time of Herodotus.. According to the common tradition, Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, the daughter of Cadmus of …

British folklore. The combined folklore of the Britain Isles (England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland). Browse articles