A seventeenth-century depiction of Lamia by Edward Topsell (c. 1572 – 1625). Credit: Public domain Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter—and according to ...

Demeter taught Erysichthon a lesson for his disrespect towards nature. Credit (left) Marie-Lan Nguyen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 (right) David Stanley, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Erysichthon of Thessaly is ...