Epic

Stories in the Epic genre:

• 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.

• 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.

• Odysseus and the Trojan War Jul 28, 2025

  

  Odysseus and the Trojan War

  In the kingdom of Ithaca, on a rocky island in the Ionian Sea, ruled a king renowned not for physical might, but for his sharp intellect and silver tongue. This was Odysseus, whose wisdom and cunning would prove more valuable than a thousand swords in the greatest conflict the ancient world had ever known—the Trojan War.

• The Voyage of the Argo Jul 28, 2025

  

  In the age of heroes, when gods walked more freely among mortals and magic flowed like wine at feast tables, there came a call for the greatest adventure the world had ever known. It began with a young man named Jason, whose rightful throne had been stolen by his uncle Pelias, and whose quest would gather the mightiest heroes of Greece aboard a ship that would become legend itself.

• Deucalion and Pyrrha Jul 27, 2025

  

  In the early days of the world, when mortals still walked closely with the gods and the boundary between divine and earthly realms was thin, there came a time when Zeus, king of all the gods, looked down upon humanity with growing displeasure and anger.

  The mortals of that age had grown corrupt and wicked beyond measure. They no longer honored the gods with proper sacrifices, they broke sacred oaths without thought, they murdered their guests instead of offering hospitality, and they committed every manner of crime and cruelty imaginable. The earth itself seemed to cry out under the weight of their sins.

• The Titanomachy Jul 26, 2025

  

  In the time before time, when the world was ruled by powers older than memory, there arose a conflict so vast and terrible that it shook the very foundations of creation. This was the Titanomachy—the War of the Titans—a ten-year battle that would determine who would rule the cosmos and shape the fate of gods and mortals alike.

  To understand this great war, we must first look back to the beginning, when Cronus, mightiest of the Titans, ruled over all creation from his throne of starlight and shadow.

• The Judgment of Paris Jul 25, 2025

  

  The Judgment of Paris

  Long before the great walls of Troy fell to Greek warriors, before the legendary heroes of the Trojan War made their names immortal through courage and cunning, a seemingly minor incident set in motion the events that would lead to one of the most famous conflicts in mythology. This incident, known as “The Judgment of Paris,” demonstrates how even the smallest decisions can have world-changing consequences when gods and their vanities are involved.

• The Labors of Heracles Jul 24, 2025

  

  The Labors of Heracles

  Among all the heroes celebrated in Greek mythology, none achieved greater fame or accomplished more astonishing feats than Heracles, known to the Romans as Hercules. His twelve labors stand as the pinnacle of heroic achievement—tasks so dangerous and seemingly impossible that no ordinary man could have survived them. Yet these legendary exploits, impressive as they were, began not as quests for glory but as penance for a terrible crime committed in a moment of divine-induced madness.