Museums

Museums

Greek culture is one of the most emblematic in the world. The habitation of Greece from deep prehistory, the miracle of classical Greek culture, the glory of Byzantium, and the country’s modern history excite the athenspath.com

Travel

Crete

  Crete: The Island Inside You McCann — Erickson Athens and Indigo View Productions created this video for the launch presentation of the new logo of the island of Crete. Four brushstrokes in the Mediterranean athenspath.com

Μythology

Hera

Hera (Greek Ἥρα) is the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion. Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage. Her counterpart athenspath.com

Μythology

Zeus

Zeus (Ancient Greek: Ζεύς, Zeús; Modern Greek: Δίας, Días) is the “Father of Gods and men” who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family according to the ancient Greek religion. athenspath.com

Μythology

Cronus

Cronus / Cronos and Kronos (Greek: Κρόνος [krónos]) was in Greek mythology the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Uranus, the sky and Gaia, the earth. He athenspath.com

Μythology

Rhea

Rhea (Greek: Ῥέα) is the Titaness daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, in Greek mythology and sister and wife to Cronos. In early traditions, she is known as “the mother athenspath.com

Μythology

Themis

Themis (Greek: Θέμις) is an ancient Greek Titaness. She is described as “of good counsel”, and is the personification of divine order, law, natural law and custom. Themis means “divine law” rather than human ordinance, athenspath.com

Μythology

Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne (Greek: Mνημοσύνη), source of the word mnemonic, was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. A Titanide, or Titaness, she was the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and the mother of the nine Muses athenspath.com