I want to ask about Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great. Are both the same people? Did both conqurer of greece?

This is out of my knowledge...    That's already history... not specifically Greek myth...

Who here would have like to get stranded (in ancient times) on the isle of Lesbos? 

you mean the Amazon?

Mainly it was because Cronos was swallowing every child born by Rhea...
I like Norse myth too but never undertook the task of reading...

 

why the ancient land of europe are full of myth and godly human meanwhile  east region kingdom such sumeria, macedonia and persian never have one?

thats not true...

you have Mithra ....

the Zoroastrian myth also interesting which later evolved to Judaism -> Christianity -> Islam

thank you bro.. this is good thing to read.. I always love the history from ancient till the world war 1,2 time.. they always interesting
btw isit zoroastrian are ancestor of Iranian till Pakistan people?

Norse mythology is grim and dark. Greek and Roman gods aren't "heroic" because they were like spoiled, gifted children and weren't afraid to show off their powers. They were immortal and even in the bloodbath of the Trojan War as told in the Iliad they simply "fled" back to Olympus when their possessed avatars were defeated in the field of battle.

Norse mythology is all about the ending, the gods and heroes already know that Ragnarok was approaching for all of them. All that remained were for them to do mighty deeds so that they could be remembered and be honored before their time was up.

Who thinks the User bar could use a little Greek War phonopoly.

Btw Since we are on Greek stuff, why do you think their culture revolves around homophobia?  I came across an article explaining this culture and it was explained by a Spartan. When both men come in a relationship of sorts that involves intimacy, there lies a bridge to pass on the art of war from lover to lover.

In Thebes, the Sacred band consists of all lovers.

ok tell me the beginning of greek myth
the beginning as i wanted to know moar

Theogony
Ouranos, the personification(?) of the sky, married Gaia, the earth, and fathered the Hundred-Handers, and the Cyclopes (Arges, Steropes and Brontes) among others. But Ouranos hurled his children into Tartaros (a place of darkness, as distant from earth as the earth from the sky), and then he fathered the Titans, Cronos being the youngest of all.

Gaia persuaded the Titans to attack Ouranos, having been angered by his action, and gave an adamantine (a mythical metal of extreme hardness) sickle to Cronos. The Titans attacked their father, and Cronos severed his father's genitals and threw them into the sea. The Furies (or the Erinyes) were born from the drops of blood of Ouranos that fell on Gaia. When the Titans had won, they entrusted the leadership to Cronos. Cronos married his sister Rhea, and swallowed his children as they were born (after Gaia and Ouranos had prophesied that Cronos' power would be stripped off by his own son).

Rhea gave birth to Zeus in a cave on Mount Dicte. Zeus was protected by the Curetes and the nymphs. The Curetes would beat their spears against their shields to prevent Cronos from hearing the child's voice. Rhea passed a stone wrapped in fabric to Cronos to swallow (I still remember this one in God of War II(?)).

When Zeus was grown, he was helped by Metis (Metis personifies cunning intelligence), and she gave Cronos a drug to swallow, which resulted in the gods whom he swallowed to be disgorged. Zeus and the gods went to war against Cronos and the Titans. Gaia prophesied that Zeus would obtain victory if he freed those hurled into the Tartaros. So, Zeus set them free, and the Cyclopes gave Zeus thunder and lightning, Hades a helmet of invisibility, and Poseidon a trident. With these weapons, the gods won over the Titans, and kept them in the Tartaros. Zeus then governed over the heavens, Poseidon over the sea and Hades over the Underworld...

I think you got it all wrong..
the greeks encouraged homosexuality especially soldiers ...
They've discovered that intimate relationship between men promotes better reason to fight and they fight well..
even the flower Hyacinths was named after Apollo's gay lover ..

I should read more on Norse myth... I feel it's interesting, but I'm not sure where to start... Do you have any recommendation of a book?