Mythology Facts for Kids
Epic tales and facts from ancient myths
Before science, myths explained natural events like thunder, floods, eclipses, and volcanic eruptions.
Ancient Greek theatre, including tragedy, began as religious festivals honoring the god Dionysus.
When Rome conquered Greece, they adopted and renamed most of the Greek gods into their own religion.
Ancient philosophers like Plato used myths as allegories to teach philosophical ideas about reality.
Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex, a tragedy based on the myth of Oedipus, who unknowingly fulfilled a terrible prophecy.
The Roman poet Ovid wrote the Metamorphoses, a long poem retelling Greek and Roman myths about transformation.
The Roman poet Virgil wrote the Aeneid, an epic that linked Rome's origins to the fall of Troy.
Most of what we know about Norse mythology comes from two medieval Icelandic texts: the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda.
The Prose Edda was written around 1220 CE by the Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson.
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem about a hero who fights the monster Grendel, combining Germanic mythology and Christianity.