The Greek myths are the source code of Western storytelling. Three thousand years on we are still retelling them, because they got something permanently right about pride, fate, love and the cruelty of the gods. These were never tidy moral fables. They are messy, violent, deeply human stories about people reaching past their limits and paying for it, which is exactly why they refuse to die.
From a marble temple on a clifftop to a roguelike where you fight your way out of the underworld, every age remakes Olympus in its own image.
Essential Greek myth
Gods, heroes and monsters across every medium
The oldest stories, retold
The myths survive because they bend. One era plays them straight as sword-and-sandal spectacle, the next reclaims a silenced character and tells it from her side. Both are the tradition working as intended.
Gods & heroes on film
Swords, sandals and Olympian spectacle
Myth on the small screen
From animated Olympus to cult sword-and-sorcery TV
Games turned the myths into something you live: wield the Blades of Chaos, climb out of Hades, sail the Aegean. Interactivity suits a mythology that was always about the journey.
Play the myth
Wield Olympian power
On the page
The epics, retellings and modern myth-makers
And it began, of course, on the page, with Homer, and continues in the modern novels and retellings that keep the gods alive.
More gods, monsters and ancient worlds
Ancient Greece
Explore the Ancient Greece guide →We keep retelling the Greek myths because they were never really about gods. They were about us, reaching too far, and they have not stopped being true.