The deity Pan did not live in Olympus among the other gods because he was the god of forests and nature in general. He could be found in the woods, where he accompanied other satyrs and protected the rivers. His appearance was coarse, depicted covered in hair, with goat legs and sometimes horns. He ...

In Greek mythology, Eros represents the god of physical love and the divine principle that drives men towards beauty and harmony. According to tradition, Eros is the son of Aphrodite and Ares, known as Venus and Mars to the Romans, who indicate Eros as Cupid, generally depicted as a winged child wi...

The sources of the mythological motif of the fight between Eros and Pan are essentially iconographic: in fact, the fight between the two gods recurs in artefacts from the Greek-Roman period in which the representation is divided into different groups of actors: as a gymnasium exercise in which, in a...

A deity revered by the Greeks and called Bacchus by the Romans, he is generally known as the god of wine. His worship, perhaps of Phrygian origin, was highly celebrated in Athens, so much so that the theatre of Dionysus represented by the biggest Greek tragedians between the 6th and 5th centuries BC...

A deity revered by the Greeks and called Bacchus by the Romans, he is generally known as the god of wine. His worship, perhaps of Phrygian origin, was highly celebrated in Athens, so much so that the theatre of Dionysus represented by the biggest Greek tragedians between the 6th and 5th centuries BC...

An ancient hat made of various materials, commonly leather, felt or fabric. It is generally characterised by an elongated cone shape, in other forms it is oval or a simple dome, as in the case of Ulysses in the scene depicted in the mosaic of the Villa del Casale. Its highly elongated cone shape, wi...

A Greek island that is part of the archipelago of the Ionian Islands; known, according to tradition, for being the home of the Greek hero Ulysses, whose deeds are narrated by Homer in the epic poem of the Odyssey....

The Odyssey, together with the Iliad, is one of the two great Greek epic poems attributed to the poet Homer. It tells the story of the hero Odysseus, better known by the name of Ulysses. After the Trojan War, narrated in the Iliad, he sets out on an adventure by sea, returning to his homeland, Itha...

Homer is the name that historically identifies the Greek poet attributed with writing two epic poems: the Iliad and the Odyssey. His existence is shrouded in mystery; according to the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BC, Homer lived around the 8th century BC. The poet’s exi...

Polyphemus is the giant cyclops son of the nymph Thoosa and Poseidon, god of the sea. He is described in the Odyssey, Homer’s epic poem, as a rough and beastly shepherd, distinguished by a single eye. In the oldest Greek myths, the cyclops are gigantic figures, children of the Earth and Heaven, t...