In her fascinating history of old age, Winter Dreams, Barbara H Rosenwein extracts lessons on ageing from Sophocles to Jenny ...

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

Retellings and reimaginings are having a moment in the publishing industry as readers can’t seem to get enough of them. Mixing newer releases with popular and beloved adaptations, this list offers ...

How did the Greeks explain the fact that their gods no longer interacted much with humans during the historical era?

What did the Romans do for us? A lot - judging by the vestiges left in Luxembourg, from heated baths and sumptuous villas to ...

Artificial intelligence is now common. Scholars suggest its origins are ancient. Greek myths feature automatons like Talos, a bronze giant with a 'divine fluid' power source. Pandora, in her original ...

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF OUR CONCEPT OF CHAOS? The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not ...

Hesiod (Greek:Ησίοδος) was born in Boeotia, Central Greece and is believed to have been active at the same time period as Homer (ca. 750-650 BCE). Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with ...

Famously mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony in the 8th century B.C.E., Nyx is one of the oldest deities in Greek mythology. The primordial goddess of the night, Nyx gave birth to numerous offspring, who ...

The ancient Greeks named the world’s first created woman not Eve but kalon kakon —“the beautiful-evil thing,” in the words of the poet Hesiod. He came from Cyme, in modern-day Turkey, and ...

27. “When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for ...

Foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys and tortoises. In Robin Waterfield’s translation of these ancient stories, animals are used to ...