Among the twelve labors accomplished by Heracles, none proved more humiliating than the cleansing of the stables of Augeas. Despite successfully completing this seemingly insurmountable task, King Eurystheus disqualified it because

Heracles’s demi-god status is further enhanced and immortalized to the status of an Olympian by Zeus because

26 In his long and colorful life, Heracles was once forced to submit himself in the service of Queen Omphale of Maeonia or Lydia where he worked

Towards the end of his career, Theseus’s life was marred by dissolute actions which culminated with his

40. Amongst the royal household of Thebes, the person who is most sympathetic to Oedipus’s plight and who stays with him until his death is

5. When Theseus comes to meet his father King Aegeus in Athens, all is not well because the city is facing civil war and King Aegeus in his dotage has placed his trust on someone who has

Ion’s identity is established as Creusa’s son that she bore to Apollo and whom she had to give him up because

When Perseus grows up to be a young man, he embarks on the perilous quest of securing the head of Medusa because

Tiresias, esteemed as a “seer” or prophet in Greek mythology, frequently emerges in tales due to his access to secrets or truths concealed from the common populace. Nevertheless, despite his gift of foresight, Tiresias paradoxically

4. When Prometheus offended Zeus by tricking him into selecting the unsavory part of the sacrifice that contained bones and suet of the slaughtered bull, Zeus hatched an evil plan that would set Prometheus’s creation on a course of profound setback by