She Viper – in Greek language Echidna. Contemporary artists often like to depict women with serpent body waist down, probably due to the exciting mixture of admiration and disgust that they potentially arouse in the viewers. Indeed, well-painted snake-women might give you chills – take a…
Hello again! Inspired by the upcoming Wonder Woman movie, where the protagonist is a princess of fictionized Amazons, we decided to add the Encyclopaedia entry on the actual Amazons from the Greek mythology, so every fan of Wonder Woman was aware of the original idea. Featured…
Congratulations! We just managed to take the second step on the mythical Path of Hydra that started at the beast’s lair near the lake of Lerna. The next monster we shall meet is even more frightening! It is so terrible that even gods fled at the…
Mytho-maniacs! We urgently need your advice. Expanding Encyclopaedia can be a time consuming and sometimes boring process. You know – every single entry must be translated, corrected and put into page, preferably with a relevant image, linked, optimized… To make it more challenging and fun, and…
A long crawl from antiquity to present. Browsing through ArtStation I stumbled upon the image of a monster named Hydra by Stefan Kopinski, which instantly appealed to me (see above). Mostly because the depicted creature brings so many associations, which I’m going to share with you…
