Greek Tales For Kids

Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Seen as the most beautiful god and the idea of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all gods.

This ancient legend is one of the most loved and famous Greek myths. This story is about love and passion, and also about the weaknesses of the human spirit.

The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is an enchanting myth about a Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture. He prays to goddess Aphrodite (aka Venus) to bring the sculpture to life for it to be his wife.

The King of Corinth, Sisyphus, was a kind ruler who was loved by all his subjects. He was considered very clever too. Watch this video, where he fools the Zeus and Hades, and he managed to keep this a secret as well.

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian boar is a monstrous wild boar remembered in connection with The Twelve Labours, in which Heracles, the (reconciled) enemy of Hera, visited in turn "all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world, to conquer every conceivable 'monster' of nature and rededicate the primordial world to its new master, his Olympian father, Zeus".[1]