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

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

According to Greek tradition, Odysseus had a son named Latinus who ruled over the Etruscans. Was he the King Latinus of ...

Old age – the “winter” of life – is often depicted as “sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”. But as Barbara H Rosenwein, an American historian and author of Winter Dreams: A Historical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

31. “Let the wage promised to a friend be fixed; even with your brother smile—and get a witness; for trust and mistrust alike ruin men.”— Hesiod Why trust us At Reader’s Digest, we’ve ...

Arthur Fairbanks, The Chthonic Gods of Greek Religion, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1900), pp. 241-259 ...