Classical Greek texts feature many examples of mortals acting against advice and experiencing adverse consequences, such as Icarus flying too close to the sun or Pandora opening a box containing evils ...

Scientists and archaeologists still harbor serious doubts about who the people were that mixed with the Thracians around 5,000 years ago, from which Thracian civilization itself would emerge. But it ...

Eros, the ancient Greek god of love, is captured peacefully asleep in this exquisite sculpture exhibited in the Metropolitan ...

Mount Ida on Crete, known to locals as Psiloritis, is the location where, according to Greek mythology, Zeus was born.

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...