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  

The much desired object of curiosity and mystery the golden fleece, now possessed by King Aeetes of Colchis, was initially bestowed as a gift from Hermes, the son of Zeus, to…

3. Prometheus petitioned the gods that they should be charitable to his creation and in return he would acquiesce to Zeus’s request that

Theseus meets his end in the most unusual of circumstances. His life ends when

When Theseus goes off to Minos to contend with the Minotaur, his chief aim is to defeat or kill the beast as this would prove