That owls are familiar Harry Potter icons is just the latest incarnation of a human fascination with owls that predates ...

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From narrowly avoiding being eaten by his father as a baby to seducing mortal women as a swan or a bull, there were some ...

and Athena her epithet, from a temple room where young girls wove sacred textiles used in the worship of the goddess. (The word parthenon in its Greek form means "of the virgins.") A similar cult ...

Greek gods and goddesses have been among ... and the son of Zeus. Portraits of Athena, the goddess of war, and Pluto, the god of the underworld, have also been popular this summer, he says.

People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds.

According to ancient myths, Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, invaded India long before Alexander the Great was born.

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