Who is Cupid and why does he get to decide who falls in love? Explore the Roman rituals of Valentine’s Day and the mythology ...

Circuit des Yeux, the shape-shifting project of Chicago-based artist Haley Fohr, has announced her highly anticipated album, ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

Nectanebo II never did use this sarcophagus, and tradition had long associated it with Alexander the Great. Chugg suggests ...

See, the way Valentine's Day is celebrated has transformed over time. The modern iteration of the holiday, with all its rosy hearts and kisses, has quite a bubbly feel compared to ...

One of the few women in Ancient Greek academe, Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned ... but the era’s political and religious turmoil helps suggest that above all else, her pagan beliefs ultimately ...

Medusa is a figure from Greek mythology. She’s a symbol of feminine strength fighting injustice. Her hair is made of snakes. That concerns some Christians who conflate Paganism with Satanism, two ...

In a small village in one of the Seleucid (Syrian-Greek) Empire’s more remote provinces ... A Seleucid military unit had set up a pagan altar in the village of Modi’in, in the foot-hills ...

Antiochus banned Jewish worship, and attempted to force the inhabitants to worship Greek pagan gods instead. In 167 BC, he desecrated the Temple when he erected an altar in it to the pagan god Zeus (1 ...

While most celebrations involve food, drinks, and merriment, the Greek New Year takes it a notch further with fascinating traditions rooted in history and symbolism. Forget generic fireworks and ...