Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...
The Greek god of war appears in the chronicles of Hercules, a demigod and son of Zeus. In the story, Ares's son Kyknos angers Apollo by causing havoc and killing pilgrims on their journey to the ...
Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...