The story of Daphnis and Chloe must be the best loved of the Erotici Graeci, the Greek love stories that date from the early centuries of the Common Era. It’s a long, long story featuring sex, pirates, wars, supernatural events and some highly implausible plot elements.
The oldest love story in the world is a tragedy. It’s the familiar tale of young lovers whose union is thwarted by their opposing parents and whose lives end in double suicide based on a misunderstanding.
Immortal Venus, to whose Name Millions of Altars daily flame; Daughter of Jove, whos flatt’ring Art Knows well to wound a Wretch’d Heart; – Sappho Look up. The brightest, the most glorious object in the heavens, beside the Sun and Moon, is the luminous and lovely planet Venus. She is the Morning Star, the Evening …
Ganymede, handsomest of mortals, caught up to pour out drink for Zeus and live amid immortals for his beauty’s sake Homer In earlier days, all Greeks were familiar with the tales that told of the many affairs of Zeus, of the ill-fated love of Apollo and Hyacinth, of Achilles and Patroclus, and of many other …
Zeus was the supreme god and ruler of Olympus with titles like Lord of the Sky, Cloud- gatherer, Rain-god and Zeus the Thunderer. He was mighty, glorious, awesome, wise and mythology’s most well-known philanderer.