Adults

Stories for the Adults age group:

• Achilles and the Trojan War Jul 29, 2025

  

  Among all the heroes who sailed to Troy, none was more celebrated, more feared, or more tragic than Achilles, son of Peleus and the sea-goddess Thetis. His story is one of divine prophecy and mortal choice, of friendship and rage, of the price of glory and the inevitability of fate. The tale of Achilles and his role in the Trojan War became the foundation of Homer’s Iliad, one of the greatest epic poems ever composed, and continues to resonate as a powerful exploration of what it means to be human in the face of destiny.

• Apollo and Daphne Jul 29, 2025

  

  Apollo and Daphne

  In the golden age when gods walked freely upon the earth, there was no deity more proud of his accomplishments than Apollo, the radiant god of music, poetry, prophecy, and the sun itself. With his perfect features, his flowing golden hair that caught the light like spun sunshine, and his mastery of the silver bow, Apollo considered himself without equal among both gods and mortals.

• Atalanta and the Golden Apples Jul 29, 2025

  

  In the ancient forests of Arcadia, where wild boars roamed through dense thickets and deer bounded across sun-dappled clearings, there lived a huntress whose speed and skill were legendary throughout Greece. Her name was Atalanta, and she was as beautiful as she was swift, as independent as she was accomplished. Yet her story would become one of the most complex tales in Greek mythology—a narrative that explores the tensions between love and freedom, tradition and independence, and the price of defying both mortal expectations and divine will.

• Echo and Narcissus Jul 29, 2025

  

  Echo and Narcissus

  In the ancient forests of Greece, where sunlight filtered through emerald leaves and crystal streams sang their way to the sea, there lived a mountain nymph named Echo. She was known throughout the woodland realm for her melodious voice and her gift for storytelling. Whenever the other nymphs gathered, Echo could enchant them for hours with her tales, her laughter ringing like silver bells through the trees.

• Eros and Psyche Jul 29, 2025

  

  Eros and Psyche

  In an ancient kingdom, there once lived a king who was blessed with three daughters, each more beautiful than the last. But the youngest, whose name was Psyche, possessed such extraordinary beauty that people would travel from distant lands just to glimpse her face. Her skin was like polished marble touched with rose light, her hair flowed like spun gold, and her eyes held the depth of twilight skies.

• Hades and the Underworld Jul 29, 2025

  

  Hades and the Underworld

  When the ancient Greeks contemplated death, they did not imagine a heavenly paradise or fiery hell as later religions would. Instead, they envisioned a shadowy, neutral realm beneath the earth—a place where the spirits of the dead would continue a diminished version of existence, neither in torment nor in joy, but simply… persisting.

• Oedipus Rex Jul 29, 2025

  

  In the ancient city of Thebes, where seven gates protected its walls and the river Ismenus wound through fertile fields, there unfolded one of the most tragic and powerful stories in all of Greek mythology. It is the tale of a man who sought to escape his destiny, only to run headlong into it; a story of kings and prophecies, of riddles and revelations, and of how the very actions we take to avoid our fate often serve to fulfill it.

• The Birth of Aphrodite Jul 29, 2025

  

  The Birth of Aphrodite

  In the earliest days of creation, before mortals walked the earth, when titans ruled the world and the Olympian gods were yet unborn, there existed only primal forces locked in eternal struggle. The sky had not yet been separated from the earth, and chaos reigned across the formless universe.

  From this primordial disorder emerged Gaia, Mother Earth herself, who gave birth to Uranus, the starry Sky. Together, they became the first divine couple, and from their union came the race of Titans—twelve colossal beings of tremendous power who would rule the world before the age of the gods.

• The Birth of Athena Jul 29, 2025

  

  The Birth of Athena

  In the early days of the world, when the Olympians had only recently secured their rule over the cosmos by defeating the Titans, Zeus sat upon his throne as king of the gods. Though his power was supreme, his wisdom remained incomplete, for wisdom requires not just strength but also thought, strategy, and foresight.

  In those days, Zeus took as his first wife the Titaness Metis, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Metis was known throughout the immortal realms for her extraordinary wisdom and cunning intelligence. Indeed, it was largely through her counsel that Zeus had prevailed in the war against the Titans, for her name itself meant “thought” or “wisdom,” and no deity or mortal could match her in sage advice or clever strategy.

• The Fall of Troy Jul 29, 2025

  

  After ten long years of siege, the great city of Troy stood battered but still defiant behind its mighty walls. The war that had begun with Paris’s abduction of Helen had claimed countless lives on both sides, including some of the greatest heroes of the age. Yet despite the Greeks’ superior numbers and the intervention of various gods on both sides, the city remained unconquered. It would take cunning rather than courage, deception rather than direct assault, to finally bring down the proud citadel of Priam.

• The Judgement of Paris Jul 29, 2025

  

  The Judgement of Paris

  Long before the great walls of Troy echoed with the clash of bronze and the cries of war, before heroes like Achilles and Hector became legends, there was a single moment of choice that would shape the destiny of gods and mortals alike. It began, as many great troubles do, with vanity, jealousy, and a golden apple.

• The Myth of Phaethon Jul 29, 2025

  

  In the eastern lands where the River Po winds through fertile valleys and the morning sun first touches the earth, there lived a young man whose beauty was matched only by his pride and whose fate would serve as one of mythology’s most powerful warnings about the dangers of overreaching ambition. His name was Phaethon, and his story is a tale of divine parentage, mortal recklessness, and the catastrophic consequences that can follow when youth and pride combine to challenge the fundamental order of the cosmos.