Ancient drama at an ancient theatre. That is what is happening at Curium and Paphos’ Ancient Odeon as the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama unfolds this July and August. Up next, as the ...

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

The stars, creator, and producers reveal how the quests, action, stunts, monsters, and even the sets are more epic — and real ...

What does love truly mean in Plato’s Symposium? Plato’s poetic and dramatic vision of love still matters for how we ...

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

I cut myself shaving right before I met Mary E. Roach. No big deal, but it’s worth mentioning because it’s so on-brand: I lost track of the number of times a character in her “We Are the Match” holds ...

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

Hercules (or, as he was known in Ancient Greece, Heracles) is the most iconic mythological hero in the Western World. Due to his incredible feats of strength, tactical mind, and battles against ...

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

“Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by Euripides. She discovered that play ...

Samothrace, a small, rocky Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, has a storied past that belies its diminutive size.

Absolute Wonder Woman has already introduced several Greek gods, reenvisioning them in ways that will shake the Absolute ...