Greek myths
The Guardian's unique retelling of the greatest stories of the classical world
First encounters
The Cyclopes were the second and lowlier race of one-eyed giants to be born on the planet; they were sons not of Gaia but of Poseidon. They spoke Greek but that was the limit of their accomplishments
Circe's isle
'Bold and reckless, lone Odysseus, do you not know that the men you seek are men no longer, but have been turned into beasts? For this is Aeaea, Circe's isle'
Foreword
That myth should incorporate a historical kernel shouldn't surprise us. Though myth, of course, is not history, it can crystallise historical experience as a kind of folk memory
The judgment of Paris
Zeus chose a mortal to judge which goddess was the fairest: Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy
Troilus and the death of Achilles
Cadmus and the dragon's teeth
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