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Walsh White's newest play, Arachne, will premiere this summer at Traveling Players in Tysons Corner Center.  While the show ...
It’s a cultural, anthropological, and psychological analysis. It is one of the ethnographic studies, and he uses the symbol ...
The Bronze Age in ancient Greece was a pivotal era that laid the foundation for the rich tapestry of Hellenic civilization.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a culture that hasn't been influenced by Greek mythology in some way. Those epic tales of gods, heroes, and fantastical beasts have embedded themselves in our collective ...
Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought to life by Aphrodite.
Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought to life by Aphrodite.
The classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and their travels to the underworld gets a modern retelling in the Lutcher Theater’s latest Broadway musical. Anais Mitchell’s “Hadestown ...
Blood of Zeus is a retelling of Greek mythology.The show doesn’t follow everything as it is, and introduces changes that allow a more seamless flow in the narrative. The characters are interesting, so ...
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast with a bull head. When Athenian hero Theseus penetrated the labyrinth ...
In Greek mythology, Serifos is the island where the demigod hero Perseus and his mother, Danaë, were washed ashore after being set adrift in a wooden chest by his grandfather, who was foretold ...
The psychology of the human is mirrored in mythology,” Karteras says. She points to the example of the Greek myth of Erysichthon, king of Thessaly, who cut down a tree in the sacred grove of ...