He is the god of boundaries who guides souls to the underworld.

The mythic center of the Hellenic world.

This trilogy of plays written in the 5th c. B.C. at the height of Athenian democracy recounts tales of intergenerational violence and the possibilities for peaceful resolution. The heroes of the play are Agamemnon and his son Orestes, whose fate (for killing his mother Clytemnestra) was decided by democratic vote in Athens.

The quintessential Athenian hero, he defeated Periphetes (the Club Bearer), Sinis, the Crommyonian Sow, Sciron, Cercyon, and Procrustes (the Stretcher) on his way to the Athens.

This series of feats was undertaken by a hero attempting to atone for his murder of his wife and children.

Husband of Aphrodite who forged a trap to capture her affair with Ares.

The island where Leto was allowed to give birth to the Far-Shooter.

Written ca. 408-6 B.C., this play takes place in Thebes and dramatizes the divine retribution for not recognizing Dionysos: driven to madness, Agave kills her own son Pentheus.

He requires payment for safe passage to the Underworld.

The infamous Bronze Age conflict that arose out of Aphrodite’s promise in the Judgment of Paris.

In a poem attributed to ‘Plato’ she said “Where did Praxiteles see me naked?”

This doric structure features relief sculptures of the Labors of Herakles.

Compiled in the 1st or 2nd c. A.D., this text has been particularly influential in its account of Herakles and Theseus, and their heroic exploits. Of Theseus, the author wrote that he "cleared the road of evildoers." The text's account of Herakles seeking advice from the Pythia at Delphi differs from earlier interpretations that have the hero going to Delphi in order to steal the tripod.

His murder by his wife’s lover was one of the many misfortunes of the house of Atreus.

This epic struggle is depicted on the north frieze of Siphnian Treasury.

He created a spring on the Acropolis in an attempt to become patron-god of Athens.

Greek tragedies were performed at this site as part of the festivities in honor of the Greek god of drama.

Written by the "father of guidebooks" in the 2nd c. A.D., this text recounts the first Olympic Games as a wrestling match between Zeus and Cronus with each subsequent game honoring Zeus' victory.

According to Apollodorus, she is Zeus’ daughter, born from an egg and brought up by Leda.

In some versions, the third episode involved the slaying of Phaia and a giant boar on the road between Troizen and Athens.

This goddess of the underworld often holds torches.

Most of the existing monuments of this "upper city" were built during a 5th-century restoration campaign by Perikles.

This text, written close in date to the Iliad and Odyssey, tells the story of Zeus' revenge upon Aphrodite by causing her to fall in love with the Trojan warrior Anchises, “so that not even she would be innocent of a mortal’s love.”

His name means "man of sorrows." He met a frightful death at the hands of Maenads.

This famous episode was instigated by Eris's anger at not being invited to the wedding of Thetis and Peleus.