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Mythology

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• Daedalus and Icarus: the price of the desire to touch the sky

  Daedalus, the greatest craftsman of antiquity, built the Labyrinth of Crete for King Minos. After helping Theseus kill the Minota…

• The last fatal glance between Orpheus and Eurydice

  Orpheus, the most famous singer and lyre player, loses his beloved Eurydice, bitten by a snake. Refusing to accept death, he desc…

• Arachne: the weaver who defied Athena

  Arachne was a weaver of humble origins endowed with extraordinary talent, capable of creating tapestries that seemed the work of…

• Narcissus and Echo: the mirror and the voice

  The myth tells of Narcissus, a beautiful youth who rejects the love of the nymph Echo. Already cursed by Hera to repeat only the…

• Stranded on Naxos

  A thread to defeat the Minotaur, a promise of eternal love. Ariadne betrays her homeland for Theseus, the hero who in return aban…

• Prometheus, the Titan who defied Zeus and gave fire to mankind

  Prometheus, the Titan who shaped men from clay, defied Zeus by stealing fire from the gods to give it to humanity, teaching them…

• Tithonus and Aurora: the price of immortality

  The myth of Tithonus and Aurora (Eos for the Greeks) tells of the love between the goddess of dawn and a mortal Trojan prince. Eo…

• Danaë and the rain that changed destiny

  To escape a prophecy that he would be killed by his grandson, King Acrisius locks his daughter Danaë in a bronze prison. Zeus, fa…

• Apollo and Daphne: the embrace that became laurel

  Apollo, after killing the serpent Python, mocks Eros and his weapons. The god of love, seeking revenge, strikes Apollo with a gol…

• The rape of Persephone: the Queen of the Underworld

  Hades, god of the Underworld, abducted Kore, daughter of Demeter, while she was picking flowers, taking her with him to the Under…