For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

Exploring the parallels between Greek mythology and Indigenous Australian storytelling, this letter examines how both oral ...

After two memoirs and two academic monographs, Clune now has a novel, “Pan.” His narrator, Nick, is 15 and living with his ...

For ancient Greeks, every waterway was protected by nymphs. They were invariably ageless young girls who existed even before ...

The cult of the ancient Greek goddess Athena allowed certain Athenian women liberties that extended beyond the roles of ...

Different cultures have their own stories about the imaginary underwater creatures, with the oldest dating back to ancient ...

One night in 373 BCE, the earth beneath the Greek city of Helike groaned and cracked. As homes crumbled and temples collapsed ...

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

“It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess.” Drawing on ancient texts ... The practice of perfuming statues was ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Explore how geography, in particular the sea, shaped ancient Greece's agricultural practices, approach to trade and warfare, and colonial expansion.

Can Greece’s mineral-rich waters, where the ancient Greeks once bathed, be a cure for exhaustion? Heidi Fuller-Love ...