Theseus wrestling the Minotaur, Attic black-figure siana cup 550-560 BCE; Benaki Museum Collection. Like Odysseus and Orpheus, Theseus...

Lyre Player and Bird Fresco from the Throne Room of Nestor's palace in Pylos dated LH IIIB (about 1300 BCE). The story of Orpheus, like...

From the beginning the Greeks’ poetry was intended to be sung or recited. The subject was myth—part legend, part folktale, part religious...