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Kevin Sorbo Biography

Kevin Sorbo actorBorn: 9/24/1958Birthplace: Mound, Minnesota After many guest appearances on Dallas, Murder, She Wrote, and Cybill, among others, Sorbo landed the title role in a series of…

Lucy Lawless Biography

Lucy Lawless (Lucy Ryan)actressBorn: 3/29/1968Birthplace: Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand Kiwi television actress known to most as Xena, Warrior Princess, Lawless has become the Wonder…

Mythology : Gods, Goddesses, Muses, Monsters

Cite Get acquainted with the mythology of many different countries and cultures, including Greek, Roman, Norse, and Egyptian mythologies. Famous and infamous characters within those traditions are…

Time Tangled Island: Ancient Greece

Factropica Fast Facts and quizzes by Beth Rowen Related Links Zeus Biography Ancient Greece Delphi Try our Ancient Greece Quiz! Factropica Fast…

Brewer's: Faroese

(3 syl.). Belonging to the Faroe Islands; a native of the islands. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894FarragoFarnese Hercules A B C D E F G H I J K…

Brewer's: Pillars of Heaven

(The). The Atlas Mountains are so called by the natives. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Pillars of HerculesPillar to Post A B C D E F G H I J K L…

Brewer's: Coma Berenices

(4 syl.). (See Berenice.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ComazantsColumns of Hercules A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…

Brewer's: Omphale

(3 syl.). The masculine but attractive Queen of Lydia, to whom Hercules was bound a slave for three years. He fell in love with her, and led an effeminate life spinning wool, while Omphale…

Brewer's: Pillory

The following eminent men have been put in the pillory for literary offences:- Leighton, for tracts against Charles I.; Lilburn, for circulating the tracts of Dr. Bastwick; Bastwick, for…

Brewer's: Torso

A statue which has lost its head and members, as the famous “torso of Hercules.” (Italian, torso.) The Torso Belvedere, the famous torso of Hercules, in the Vatican, was discovered in the…