Greek Mythology From A To Z:

How can I explain to you, my happiness, my golden, wonderful happiness, how much I am all yours – with all my memories, poems, outbursts, inner whirlwinds? Or explain that I cannot write a word without hearing how you will pronounce it – and can’t recall a single trifle I’ve lived through without regret – so sharp! – that we haven’t lived through it together – whether it’s the most, the most personal, intransmissible – or only some sunset or other at the bend of a road – you see what I mean, my happiness?

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

I keep thinking about the suggestion that Apollo hated Achilles so much because Achilles was literally just like him but mortal (blond, musical, good with a sword, talented at medicine) and he just didn't care for that.

Saw someone say that when a Child of Ares speaks (even if theyre whispering), everyone he/she is talking to WILL hear them because you cannot ignore war. Just sit a think about that for a second.

Hera: you’re just gonna leave me? Like this?

Zeus: like what? I’m just going to the meat market.

Hera, sulking: you may as well just rip my heart in two

Zeus: wha- what did I do??

Hera: it’s what you didn’t do

Zeus:

Hera:

Zeus: oh

Zeus: *kisses Hera’s head* better?

Hera: much :)

The Aeneid - Amazon / L‘Eneide - Amazzone

by Fabio Fabbi

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[B] - Bia (Βία) was a Titan goddess and the personification of force.

Medusa by Alice Pike Barney

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[A] - Ægir was a primeval god, more ancient than many other Norse deities.

He was the god of the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon and the Roman god Neptune

Aegir and his wife Ran carried a net with which they could trap seafarers and pull them down to their underwater kingdom. Drowned sailors were said to dine at Aegir’s banquet hall. The underwater couple had nine daughters - the ocean waves.

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[E] - Eurydice (Εὐρυδίκη) was a nymph, one of the daughters of the god Apollo. She was married to Orpheus, a legendary musician and poet.

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[E] - Eostre, according to the stories, is a goddess associated with flowers and springtime.

Eostre first makes her appearance in literature about thirteen hundred years ago in the Venerable Bede’s Temporum Ratione. Bede tells us that April is known as Eostremonath, and is named for a goddess that the Anglo-Saxons honored in the spring.

Interestingly, Eostre doesn’t appear anywhere in Germanic mythology, and despite assertions that she might be a Norse deity, she doesn’t show up in the poetic or prose Eddas either. However, she could certainly have belonged to some tribal group in the Germanic areas, and her stories may have just been passed along through oral tradition.