Introduction -- Cultural transformations of the phoenix -- Prologue sacred to the sun -- Egyptian beginnings -- Royal bird of China -- Classical marvel. Birth of the Western phoenix ; Early Roman ...

A bird that lives 500 years before it dies—sometimes by fire, sometimes not—only to be reborn from its ashes and live another 500 years is, today, one of the most widely known mythical creatures.

Some of us yahoos have to take it for granted that 18th-century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck made important advances in the art of opera — it’s all Greek to us. It was also largely Greek to ...

The legend of the phoenix tells the story of a stunning, brightly colored bird that has been given the powers of immortality and rebirth by the sun. The bird, according to the myth, offers a beautiful ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World In this eye-opening account, historian Everill (Not Made by Slaves) outlines the biases, projections, misunderstandings, and ...