Translation for 'Greek mythology' from English to Norwegian

Greek mythology

gresk mytologi {m}mytol.

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mythology

mytologi {m}

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Roman mythology

romersk mytologi {m}mytol.

Germanic mythology

germansk mytologi {m}mytol.

Celtic mythology

keltisk mytologi {m}mytol.

Greek

gresk {m}lingv.

greker {m}etn.

gresk {adj}

Ancient Greek

gammelgresk {m}lingv.

Modern Greek

nygresk {m}lingv.

• In literary works of these eras, Ares is replaced by the Roman Mars, a romantic emblem of manly valor rather than the cruel and blood-thirsty god of Greek mythology.
• Orestes is then beset by the Furies, who avenge the murders of kin in Greek mythology.
• Argo derived from the ship "Argo" in Greek mythology, sailed by Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece.
• In Greek mythology, Achilles (...) or Achilleus (...) was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and the central character of Homer's "Iliad".
• In Greek mythology, Abydos is presented in the myth of Hero and Leander as the home of Leander.

• ... "Aktaion"), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.
• Athene or Athena is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.
• The Cetus was a sea monster in Greek mythology which both Perseus and Heracles needed to slay.
• Love affairs ascribed to Apollo are a late development in Greek mythology.
• Examples include the witch in "Hansel and Gretel", Lamia of Greek mythology and Baba Yaga of Slavic folklore.

• In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother, Rhea, saved him from being devoured by his father, Cronos.
• Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
• Another classical term in use to describe beauty was "pulchrum" (Latin). Greek mythology mentions Helen of Troy as the most beautiful woman.
• was a figure in Greek mythology. Aegisthus is known from two primary sources: the first is Homer's "Odyssey", believed to have been first written down by Homer at the end of the 8th century BCE, and the second from Aeschylus's "Oresteia", written in the 5th century BCE.
• In Greek mythology, Alcmene (...) or Alcmena ([...]; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμήνη or Doric Greek: Ἀλκμάνα, Latin: Alcumena means "strong in wrath") was the wife of Amphitryon by whom she bore two children, Iphicles and Laonome.

• The word "aegis" is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, [...] where the Greek word "aegis" is applied by extension.
• In Greek mythology, Aegeus ([...] , [...]; [...] , also spelled Aegeas) was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens.