Source Naturalis Historia (Natural History)Pliny the Elder
Ancient Greek is documented in use as a written language in Greece. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.
Source The World's Writing SystemsPeter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.)
Psyche is the word for both soul and butterfly, and the two meanings are not separable.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Byzantine Greek is documented in use as a written language in Greece. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.
Source The World's Writing SystemsPeter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.)
Greek sources treat the centaurs as a tribe of Thessaly, a people rather than a symbol. The reading of them as the human struggle with instinct is a modern gloss and not a Greek statement.
Source Greek ReligionWalter Burkert
Cerberus at the gate, and the dogs of Hekate at the crossroads.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Apollo Delphinios, the rescue of Arion, and the dolphin as the friendly sea itself.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The bird of Zeus, and the eagle that carries Ganymede.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Amaltheia, the aegis, and the goat sacrifice at the root of tragedy.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The Hydra is tied to one place, the marsh of Lerna in the Argolid, and is a local monster rather than a general type. Ancient authors disagree wildly on the number of her heads, which suggests it was never a fixed feature.
Source TheogonyHesiod
Koine Greek is documented in use as a written language in Greece. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.
Source The World's Writing SystemsPeter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.)
The language of Greece and of Greek Cyprus, and of the Greek communities of the diaspora.
Source Ethnologue: Languages of the WorldDavid M. Eberhard, Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig (eds.)
A Minoan and Mycenaean motif long before it is a Greek one, and read as the sea itself.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The owl of Athena, and Athens stamping it on its coinage.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The hecatomb, the hundred-ox sacrifice, is the largest offering the Homeric poems describe.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The bird of Hera, its tail carrying the eyes of Argos.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Born of Medusa's blood, opens the Hippocrene, carries Bellerophon and then throws him.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Herodotus reports the bird at second hand, and the Physiologus turns it into a resurrection figure.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source The Homeric HymnsAnonymous; ascribed in antiquity to Homer
The golden fleece, and the ram of Zeus Ammon at Siwa.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The cock owed to Asclepius, which is the last thing Socrates says.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source OdysseyHomer
The hippocampus, drawing the chariot of Poseidon.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The snakes of Asclepius, and the household snake as the guardian of the place.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
The Greek sphinx is female, winged and lethal, sent against Thebes and destroying herself when Oedipus answers her. The Greeks took the form from Egyptian and Levantine art and gave it a wholly different character.
Source Greek ReligionWalter Burkert
Zeus and Leda, and the swan of Apollo.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)