Myths and Legends of the World

A fierce storm broke out at sea, with stormy winds driving the Trojan fleet to Carthage. It was no ordinary storm. Juno, Queen of Heaven, had stirred the winds and sea. Since the time of Judgment of Paris, the goddess hatred for the Trojans hasn't lesser since the death of Paris and the sack of mighty Troy. She was supporter of the Greek army, determined to rid of Troy for being slight in a beauty contest, when Paris awarded the apple of discord to Venus. In Carthage, the goddess had hoped that its ruler and its kingdom would turn against these strangers, or at least divert Aeneas from fulfilling his destiny in Italy. But this kingdom was ruled by a great queen named Dido. There are at least two Didos in mythology. Dido was the founder of Carthage hundreds of years before Rome when she fled from Phoenicia after their brother, Pygmalion, had murdered Sychaeus, Dido's husband and uncle. Other Dido is the one who with her sister Anna meet Aeneas.The queen welcomed Aeneas an...

Hadrian married in about AD 100, but we do not know much about the life of his beard wife and empress, Vibia Sabina. Sabina's image was put on the official coinage and there are many statues of her. Their mutual indifference became open antipathy in later life, though they kept up appearances to some extent, and were never divorced. Sabina, who professed that she was proud to have born no children to her ‘monstrous’ husband, nevertheless was occasionally even allowed to accompany him on his travels. However, ancient sources make it very clear that Hadrian was in love with a young Greek male called Antinous. Homosexual relationships were not considered unusual in ancient Rome, but the intensity with which Hadrian mourned Antinous’ premature death was without precedent. Background on Antinous: Antinous was born in a town called Claudiopolis in the northwest corner of the country that we now call Turkey, in the year 111 A.D. He was very likely not from a wealthy family, and is...

Love is a simple word but it really hard to define. It come in more forms like sexual love, friendship, family love for example. Let talk about true love. People uses the term soul-mate and today we talk about Goddess Psyche and her story. Psyche was not a "natural-born" goddess; she was a "marry up" goddess. She had problems like regular married couple have mother-in-law from hell, jealous siblings and a husband was a mama boy. Psyche's story begins as a fairy tale. Once upon a time there was a king with three daughters. They were all beautiful, but by far the most beautiful was the youngest, Psyche. She was so beautiful that people began to neglect the worship of Venus, the Goddess of love and beauty. Venus was pissed, and asked her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a horrible monster. When he saw how beautiful she was, Cupid dropped the arrow meant for her and pricked him, and fell in love with her. Despite her great beauty no-one wanted to m...