a male counterpart to Pallas Athena
gives skill to artists
god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volca...
Hermes' helmet and sandals, Achiless' armor, chariot of Helios
chain-link net for Aphrodite & Ares
Pandora's pithos (also known as "Pandora's box")
first do...
Wheel tripods to bring stuff to Olympos and back (Iliad, ca. 8th century B.C.)
golden and silver dogs and lions which could bite invaders of the palace of Alkinoos (Ody...
Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life,
Abhorr'd all womankind, but most a wife:
So single chose to live, and shunn'd to wed,
Well pleas'd to want a consort of his bed.
Y...
The Goddess, present at the match she made,
So bless'd the bed, such fruitfulness convey'd,
That ere ten months had sharpen'd either horn,
To crown their bliss, a lovely boy...
described in 10th book of Ovid's metamorphoses, but potentially derived from older myth from island of Cyprus
an archetypical story about a thing which becomes consciou...
a half-mythological, half-historic personage
first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom")
important contributions to mathematics (e.g. Pythagorean th...
triangle distributing numbers 1 to 10 in four rows
many levels of symbolism (Unity / Power / Harmony / Kosmos; Fire / Air / Water / Earth; Point / Line / Triangle / Te...
and then said creators: faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram
and then said humans: faciamus machinam ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram
