Learn about the controversial Gaia hypothesis, stating that Earth is its own living system kept in balance by organisms.

The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and ...

Please note that the animation includes depictions of violence from Greek mythology. We advise watching before sharing with your class. We learn how Gaia - Mother of the Earth - and Ouranos - God ...

The great earth goddess Gaia had married her own son ... Her arrival generated some of the most beautiful accounts in ancient Greek literature. The following is an extract from Kypria, an ancient ...

Ancient Greek poets and myth-makers told this ghastly story of her origins. The earth goddess Gaia, sick of her eternal, joyless copulating with her husband-son, the sky god Ouranos (sex which ...

Being able to pass freely between Olympus, the Underworld, and the mortal realm, Hermes fulfilled an important role in Greek mythology as ... have survived from the ancient Mediterranean ...

As a scholar of ancient mythology, I’m aware of many ... Female rebellion is at the heart of the Greek story about the creation of the world. Gaia, the Earth goddess, rebels against her husband ...