319 Quotes About Greek-mythology

Youths who were most handsome. Adonis, son of Cinyras and Smyrna, whom Venus [Aphrodite] loved. Endymion, son of Aetolus, whom Luna [Selene] loved. Ganymede, son of Erichthonius, whom Jove [Zeus] loved. Hyacinthus, son of Oebalus, whom Apollo loved. Narcissus, son of the river Cephisus, who loved himself.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

You make the rarest canvas, love

If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.

I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow.

I asked myselfWhat, Sappho, canyou give one whohas everything,like Aphrodite?

Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.

Do not worry about your contradictions - Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both.

Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa.I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed.