Top Ten Greek Myths

• The Top Myths in Greek Mythology are listed below:

The Ten Top Greek Myths

1. Prometheus
2. Iliad: Helen of Troy and the Trojan War.
3. Odysseus and the Odyssey and his wife Penelope.
4. Heracles and the Twelve Labours of Heracles
5. Pandora and Pandora's Box
6. Theseus and the Minotaur
7. Jason and the Argonauts
8. Demeter and Persephone
9. Orpheus and Eurydice
10. Oedipus

Other Greek Myths

1. Adonis and Aphrodite
2. Alcyone and Ceyx
3. Amazons, the
4. Arachne
5. Apollo and Daphne
6. Asclepius, the God of Medecine
7. Athena
8. Cadmus
9. Callisto
10. Daedalus and Icarus
11. Danaides, the
12. Deucalion and The Flood of Deucalion
13. Europa
14. Eros
15. Psyche
16. Hecate
17. Hecuba
18. Idas and Marpessa
19. Io and Zeus
20. King Midas and the Golden Touch
21. Leto
22. Naiobe
23. Narcissus and Echo
24. Perseus and Andromeda
25. Phaeton and the Sun Chariot
26. Pygmalion and Galatea
27. The Myth of Sisyphus

Hesiod's Theogony

• The Theogony ia a poem by Hesiod (c.700 BCE) written in the epic dialect of ancient greek, and is considered the to be the source of Greek Mythology.
• The Theogony describes the origin and genealogy of the Greek Gods.

The Twelve Olympian Gods

• The Twelve most important Gods in the Greek Pantheon (Temple of all Gods) who lived on Mount Olympus (100 miles west of Thessaloniki.
• Plato in ‘The Phaedrus’ (Dialogue) places the twelve Gods in the Zodiac each representing a month.
  • The Twelve Olympians

The Titans

• The Titans were an older generation of Giant Gods who possessed incredible strength and who lived on Mount Othrys in Greece. The twelve most important Titans constituted the first Greek Pantheon (Temple of all Gods).
• The first twelve Titans were the children of Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father sky).
• In a ten year war called the ‘Titanomachy’, the Titans fought against the Twelve Olympians. The Titans were defeated and replaced by the Twelve Olympians who made their home on Mount Olympus.