For much of the 20th century, women on screen often appeared as “damsels in distress”—sometimes as love interests, other times as sisters, mothers, or daughters—but typically as characters with ...

In Homer’s Odyssey, the episode of the witch Circe is one of the most deliciously intriguing of the epic. She is often ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

Gods and demigods are an integral part of the Marvel Comics universe. Long before the advent of gamma radiation, space travel ...

What is not allowed, though, is to give up trying to bring it about.” Anyone familiar with Greek mythology knows the love story/tragic legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. He is a supremely talented ...

It s a look or glance that many believe can bring bad luck at whom it is directed says Devdutt PattanaikThe priests of Varanasi s KalBhairav Temple are known for their jhaadna or the dusting off of ne ...

It s a look or glance that many believe can bring bad luck at whom it is directed says Devdutt PattanaikThe priests of Varanasi s KalBhairav Temple are known for their jhaadna or the dusting off of ne ...

One of the most interesting stories in ancient Greek mythology is the abduction of Persephone by Hades. For a long time, this story has stood as a symbol for both the changing of the seasons and for ...

Not a grand moment of sacrifice, but a quiet collapse. She dies not from physical injury, but from something closer to Greek myth—heartbreak, despair, the unbearable weight of watching the man she ...