Greek Myths

Dance

Greek Mythology is filled with symbols and names we know and use today, but often the stories are not so well known. Luckily many sources for the complex relations of the Titans, Goddesses and Gods, Centaurs, Cyclopes, Gorgons and Nymphs have survived. Homer gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey, which I like to tell from the mouth of the wise Penelope. Appolodorus, Hesoid, Virgil, Ovid and many others gave us the stories from Mount Olympus.



Zeus, father of the gods, was curious and lusty. Flying about one day, he saw a shining brass tower with one narrow window. So he turned himself into a shaft of golden light and came pouring in the window to have a look. That light slowly took the form of a golden man, standing next to the amazed and lovely Danae. . . Danae's father, who had imprisoned her there, had the tower battered open when he heard the sound of a baby crooning - and there was Danae nursing a baby son. She looked at her father and smiled sweetly, “I have named him Perseus, the avenger.”