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The son of Uranus, ruler of the universe, Cronos dispatched the genitals of his father with a great stone sickle before casting his testicles into the sea. Greek mythology has its fair share of gruesome deeds and grisly goings-on, but those attributed to Cronos are among the most disturbing.
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According to legend, any person who gazed upon Medusa would turn to stone. The daughter of the sea gods Phorcys and Ceto, she was a breathtakingly beautiful mortal woman – until she invoked the jealousy of Athena and was transformed into a hideous creature with snakes for hair.
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Medusa was certainly monstrous, although it could be argued that her villainous deeds were somewhat out of her control. It’s from this tale we get the idiom ‘Achilles’ heel’. As such, when the Trojan prince Paris shot Achilles in the heel with an arrow, he died. According to legend, Achilles’ goddess mother Thetis had dipped him into the River Styx to make him invulnerable save for his heel – the part of the foot from which she held him. Venerated as the greatest of all warriors of antiquity, Achilles is the protagonist of Homer’s Iliad his most notable feat was killing the Trojan prince Hector during the Trojan War. Vowing to reclaim the throne, Jason joins forces with the Argonauts (a band of 50 heroes) in a bid to acquire the Golden Fleece, a symbol of kingship that lay beyond the edge of the known world. The story begins when Jason’s father, the king of Iolcus, is killed by his half-brother Pelias. Jasonīetrayal, vengeance and justice – these are the components that have made the Greek myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece so compelling over the years. Such feats continued into adulthood: he is perhaps best known for completing the 12 impossible ‘labours’ assigned to him by King Eurystheus – which included the slaying of beasts such as the Nemean lion, whose golden fur made it impervious to attack from a mortal. The gods weren’t the only ones to make mischief – they were supported by a cast of monsters, Titans and heroes HEROES Heraklesīravery was something Herakles – son of Zeus – had to learn early in life one of his first deeds involved eliminating two serpents sent by the goddess Hera to murder him in his crib.