It's Trivia Tuesday! How many gods are considered Olympians? Bonus question: can you name them all? Leave your answers in the comments below 👇 #greekmythology #triviatuesday #mythology #mythologytrivia #olympians

📖 Tales of the Arabian Nights is the first storytelling board game I ever played. It sucks you in with a choose your own adventure feel that I absolutely love. 🎲 Your choices often end in ridiculous ways, making the game really unpredictable. I'd suggest not drinking a rock slide just to see what happens lol but do try to become the King of Thieves..... ✅ Play if you like storytelling games, giant story books, crazy adventures, and the Tales of the Arabian Nights atmosphere. ❎ Don't play if you like strict win conditions. This game kind of just meanders around until somebody wins. It's about the story, not who's winning or losing. #talesofthearabiannights #boardgames #storytelling #games #boardgamenight

📚 What are you reading? 🏺I just finished Hades by Carly Spade. While I wait for Apollo to come in the mail.... I'm going to try reading my first regency romance! 🥰 I really liked the Netflix series, but that "sticker" on the book is driving me crazy lol Have you read or watched the series? Did you like it? #amreading #regencyromance #bridgerton #juliaquinn #romancereader

It's Trivia Tuesday! Which monster lived in a labyrinth? Bonus question: what island was the labyrinth on? Leave your answers in the comments below 👇 #greekmythology #triviatuesday #mythology #labyrinth

Sunflowers are beautiful, but their origin myth contains spurned love and stalker level adoration. In some versions, there's even a live burial involved.  Bet you didn't think that's where this post was going lol  Basically, the sun god Helios got himself into a bit of a love triangle. He messed around with a water nymph who fell madly in love with him, while he himself fell in love with a mortal. Talk about a recipe for disaster!   Like most love triangles, the story devolved into a jealous mess. The nymph tattled to the mortal's father about his daughter's affair with the sun god. Her father's only logical option was to….bury her alive? Glad I didn't live in the times of these myths!  Some say that the sun god turned his mortal lover into a sunflower, sprouting from the dirt in which she was buried.  She could live on like this, watching him lovingly, but never getting to hold him again. Tragic love was a common theme in Greek mythology, unfortunately.  Others say that after the mortal died, the sun god shunned the water nymph. She fell into despair, refusing to eat or drink for nine long days. She pined for the sun god, watching him pull the sun across the sky each day, but never seeing him in the flesh again. Eventually, her body transformed, growing roots and flowers that would follow the trail of the sun forever.  Technically, this myth is about the heliotrope flower, but most people link it to sunflowers now. Either way, I'm making a mental note that love triangles with the gods should be avoided lol #greekmythology #mythology #mythologymonday #helios #sunflower #heliotrope

Hades and Persephone retellings are really popular lately. So here's a list of 12 of them! 📚 Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe 📚 The Power of Hades by Eliza Raine 📚 Neon Gods by Katee Robert 📚 A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair 📚 Hades by Carly Spade 📚 Hades and Persephone by Heidi and Erica Hastings 📚 Infernal by Lindsey Hall 📚 Goddess of Spring by P.C. Cast 📚 Persephone by Kaitlin Bevis 📚 For the Love of Hades by Sasha Summers 📚 Tempting Hades by Emma Hamm 📚 Hades and Persephone by Amelia Wilde Which ones have you read? Have you read any good ones that I've missed? #greekmythology #mythologybooks #booklist #loreolympus #rachelsmythe #elizaraine #kateerobert #scarlettstclair #carlyspade #heidihastings #ericahastings #lindseyhall #pccast #kaitlinbevis #sashasummers #emmahamm #ameliawilde #amreading

📚 What are you reading? I started reading Hades by Carly Spade a few days ago. There's lots of hype over the newest in the series, Eros, so I wanted to give it a try! I haven't gotten much time to read it yet, but I love that the scene breaks are little Cerberus icons! What a cool detail. All of the other books are Hades themed too. 💀Can you guess what they are? #hades #carlyspade #contemporarymythos #amreading #greekmythology #whatareyoureading

Trivia Tuesday! Which god abducted Persephone? Bonus question: what's your favorite book about Persephone? Leave your answers in the comments below 👇 #greekmythology #triviatuesday #persephone

What's your favorite kind of dog?  Hades loves three-headed ones... Cerberus helps Hades guard the Underworld, making sure that nobody who's alive gets in and that the souls of the dead don't escape. There won't be any hauntings on Cerberus' watch! If you do need to get past him, to rescue a lost love or ask Persephone for a favor, I recommend learning to play an instrument well enough to lull Cerberus to sleep. Or bringing him a tasty treat. It worked for Orpheus and Psyche, why not you too?  Don't blame me if he bites your hand off though. Cerberus might be the best boy in Greek mythology, but he still has a job to do. Those three heads aren't just for show.  They do make for excellent pets though, which is definitely my favorite part of the Hades game I've been playing.  Not only can you pet Cerberus, but you can talk to him too!  The poor dog tore the Underworld's lounge apart the first time I tried to escape the Underworld without him. The game better let me take him with when I eventually make it to Olympus lol #cerberus #greekmythology #mythmonday #hades #hadesthegame #mythology

Hades released on Xbox One today! I've been so excited to play this. The artwork is really colorful, the characters seem unique, and all the screenshots I've seen have some pretty sassy dialogue too. Has anyone played it? What did you think? #hades #hadesthegame #greekmythology #xbox #xboxone #videogames