Greek myths, laid tile by tile
The whole floor
Hero tales, monster tales and later folk beliefs, set side by side. Sort the tiles by theme or walk the floor from the newest panel back to the first.
6 panels laid
From the churchmen of Byzantium to the night lanes of the islands
A body that will not decay, a knock at the door, a name called once in the dark. How churchmen, travellers and islanders described the Greek revenant.
Step onto this panelThe Argo carried sons of gods, two winged brothers, a singer and a lookout who could see beneath the earth. Meet the crew, then follow Jason into the field of Ares.
Her father wanted a son and left her in the wild. A she-bear nursed her, hunters raised her, and no man could beat her in a race until the golden apples fell.
Hesiod never said how many heads the Hydra had. Painters gave her a handful, Apollodorus nine, Ovid a hundred, and Pausanias suspected she had only one.
Hesiod gave the hound of Hades fifty heads, a serpent mother and a storm-giant father. Later poets found a gentler way past him: something sweet, soaked in honey.
Before anyone fixed the list in a book, sculptors at Olympia cut twelve labours into marble squares. Follow Heracles from those metopes to the mosaic floors of Roman villas.
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