Greek Mythology is a supernatural and eerie world of heroes, gods, weak men and women, heroes fighting for the overall good, creatures, and monsters from an unknown world. Greek Mythology is the body of the legends, stories, and myths made by the ancient Greeks and utilized based on religious and spiritual beliefs and cult practices.

Greek Mythology is a fascinating subject, and very interesting to read about the different beasts and how they turn out to be. The fascination of Greek Mythology is due to the full stories of heroes, gods, and goddesses. There have been many Greek mythological creatures whose nature and behavior is enticing to read about. There are a lot of famous beasts like a lion, Nemean, Centaur, and Minotaur. Today, these beasts have become extremely popular, and also people utilize these names for products and different other marketing needs.

Some of the beasts have heroic deeds in their lists of attainments, and some were known to be exceedingly evil. Some of the beasts were slain by renowned Greek heroes. Most popular Greek mythological monsters are as follows:

• Calydonian Boar

• Centaur

• Cerberus

• Charybdis

• Cretan Bull or Minotaur

• Cyclopes of Trojan War

• Erymanthian Boar

• Gigantes

• Gorgons

• Griffins

• Harpy

• Hippocampus

• Hydra

Among all the monsters, Typhon was the one that was sent to kill Zeus. However, Typhon was killed too, and later the god who sent him was rebuked severely.

Greek Mythology Is Vast And Fascinating

The Popular "Taking the bull by its horns" saying comes from Hercules. 

The origin of this saying is Greek Mythology. It was one of the twelve labors of Hercules, which had to repent for killing his wife and kids in a fit of insanity caused by Hera. He saved the whole Crete city from a powerful bull by grabbing its horns.

Athena defeated Poseidon to be the guardian of Athens.

Both Gods wanted to be the city's guardian, so they decided to present each to please the people. Poseidon gave water in the type of spring. However, the water is salty. On the other hand, Athena gave the people of Athens an olive tree that was very valuable as it provides food, oil, and wood, and therefore she won.

Hera Returned Her Virginity Yearly

Hera was Zeus' sister, who later becomes his complete as she was in love with Zeus. The most fascinating about Hera is that she was able to restore her virginity yearly by bathing in Kanathos, a sacred spring.

Pandora: the First Mortal Woman

Pandora was created by Zeus and was considered the first mortal woman in accordance to the history of Greek Mythology. She got a gift from each of the gods to make her perfect. Zeus gave Pandora to Epimetheus, who had been advised by Prometheus, his brother, to not take any presents from Zeus, but he got amazed and enchanted by the beauty of Pandora and accepted. He gave her a box and told her to never unboxed. However, she could not resist and unboxed it, allowing all evil as well as mistrust in the world.

The wide influence of Greek Mythology on our culture and historical heritage is irrefutable, since until now, artists, philosophers, and scholars are trying to explain the world and its ethic on aspects of Greek Mythology.

The covert of the Greeks and the Greek mythology, although, that is, myths and history are extremely artistically tangled as well as interwoven that nobody really understands where fiction ends and where history starts.