The great earth goddess Gaia had married her own son ... Her arrival generated some of the most beautiful accounts in ancient Greek literature. The following is an extract from Kypria, an ancient ...

Sometimes seen as the Greek goddess of the earth, Gaia was revered as the mother of all living beings. According to Hesiod, she birthed the titans who preceded Zeus and the other gods of Olympus. Gaia ...

Lovelock’s neighbor William Golding, the author of “Lord of the Flies,” suggested the “Gaia theory,” after the ancient Greek goddess of Earth. At first, Lovelock misheard him and thought ...