Mythology
For Greek Concierge, mythology is a living map of Greece — each story reveals the character of a place and brings deeper meaning to the journeys we create.
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The Twelve Olympians
The Twelve who held Olympus, in the order the ancient lists give them — what the texts say each was god of, and where in Greece each was worshipped.
12 entries -
Other Olympian Gods
The gods of the Olympian court outside the Twelve — what the texts make of their office, and the ground in Greece each is fixed to.
7 entries -
Titans & First Gods
The powers that came before the Olympians — the first gods, the Titans who followed them, and the children born to them.
13 entries -
Gods Beyond Olympus
The divinities whose seat lies beyond the Olympian court — gods, spirits, nymphs and mortals made divine — and the ground in Greece each is fixed to.
26 entries -
Heroes & Mortals
The mortals at the centre of the myths — Achilles, Odysseus, Perseus and Ariadne — and the places in Greece their stories are fixed to.
34 entries -
Monsters & Creatures
The Minotaur, Medusa and the beasts of the Labours — what the ancient texts say of them, and the ground in Greece each is fixed to.
19 entries -
Sacred Places
Mount Olympus, the Labyrinth, the Omphalos and the gates to Hades — the places the myths name, and what stands on the ground now.
21 entries -
Oracles, Cult & Rites
The Delphic oracle, the Eleusinian Mysteries and the ancient Olympic Games — how each was conducted, and what was withheld.
15 entries -
Wars, Voyages & Labours
The long arcs rather than the names inside them — wars, voyages, labours and returns, and how the ancient sources put each one together.
8 entries -
The Ancient Sources
The works and writers the collection rests on — Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians and Pausanias — who wrote what, when, and what it records.
11 entries -
A–Z Index
Every entry title, with the ancient epithets and the variant spellings a reader is as likely to have typed.
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