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The gods and heroes battle it out with monsters in the best of mythology.

Today we aren't looking for the most virtuous person, or most likeable, but rather the most disturbing. Will it be Echo, the nymph who is doomed to...

Don't fly too close to the sun, Shmoopers.

This dude decapitated a creature with snakes for hair and married a beautiful maiden that he saved from a sea monster. Let's see how many of you ca...

Would you like to be immortal? We expected as much. But how about ifyou were ugly and your mother tossed you out of your home, giving you a limp fo...

A lot of you probably picture Hera as this heartless, bitter, vengeful…woman. We're here to show you that there's more to her than that. By the e...

Whoever said heroes don't bask in their own glory clearly never met Hercules. But was his arrogance justified? We'll let you be the judge.

As the son of Zeus, Hermes leads a pretty stressful life. How does he relax? With some casual theft, of course. But we're guessing you're not the s...

It's no surprise that an ugly monster with a head full of snakes would be misunderstood. Then again, it should be obvious that she didn't ask for s...

When deciding which battlefield causes more pain—love or war—all we need to do is ask, WWAT? In other words, "What Would Ares Think?" We're all...

You might think that the Greek god of love would have the most romantic love life of all time. And he does—now. It was no easy feat, though. Appa...

It's hard to feel bad for a dangerous, man-eating, one-eyed giant, but Polyphemos does his best. How does he fare? Does he bring readers over to Te...

How would you like to spend your honeymoon in the Land of the Dead, surrounded by lost souls and despair? What, not the romantic vacation you were...

If you ever crush on someone so hard that their dad turns them into a tree to escape your attention…maybe it's time to reevaluate your flirting t...

This story is more romantic, tragic, and morbid than Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Don't believe us? Watch this video to see how the myth pulls...

Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and sex, can have any god or man that she desires. Yet she ends up alone, with no one she truly loves at al...

Zeus knew how to play the field and win the ladies, but don’t plan on drawing inspiration from his moves. Last time we checked mortal dudes could...

You may think it would be pretty cool to be the girl whose face launched a thousand ships. But those ships weren't heading to a relaxing Bermuda va...

You’d think that someone who can play with a fancy trident and summon the powers of the ocean would be happy, happy, happy. However, all sour-pus...