The summer solstice occurs each year on June 21. It was celebrated by ancient cultures across the world, including the ...

NASA continues to name its most important space missions after ancient Greek gods, but what is the connection between space ...

I try to fight this lamentable tendency,” he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. “Odyssey” is the fourth in his ...

Archaeologists have made an exciting discovery after they unearthed fragments inscribed with the name Odysseus on the island ...

Maybe you can name every Greek god ever committed to mythology; maybe you just know Nike, goddess of victory, thanks to her line of footwear. Either way, it’s hard not to know a little something ...

Nicole Kassell chats with THR about working on the first two episodes of the Netflix series and rethinking the sirens myth. By Lexy Perez Associate Editor Before signing on to direct the first two ...

Greek mythology is fascinating. Although these myths or legends were told by ancient people thousands of years ago, they hold universal truths and lessons that relate to us in our modern-day lives.

Most of the selections are marble portraits of emperors and officials and depictions of gods and goddesses ... exhibition with fellow curator, Lisa Ayla Çakmak, who also chairs the department.

The birth of AphroditeAphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...