In response, Theseus, a young Athenian compared to Hercules by some, volunteers to be sent to Crete as part of the next sacrificial offering, boyishly confident he can somehow defeat the Minotaur and ...

For his sixth labor (see my previous posts), Hercules was ordered to disperse a huge flock of extremely aggressive, large, predatory and territorial birds that had taken over a lake near the Greek ...

As a snot-nosed child, Greek mythological tales always held a certain kind of irresistible fascination for me. Whether it was the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, or the endlessly impressive ...