Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish ...

Online, products branded as the blue lotus promise calm moments and psychedelic trips. But they're far different from what ...

Linguists, psychologists and experts in cultural evolution are discovering why we tell stories, how ancient the oldest ones are and why some tales run and run ...

And that love can continue through the teen years. There's more than just Greek and Roman mythology, too. The fantastic (in every sense of the word) books on this list draw from Indian, Norse, ...

Many people have heard the name of Orestes, a prominent figure of ancient Greek mythology, but how many of us know his ...

Pherecydes of Syros, a pioneering philosopher and tutor of Pythagoras, blended myth and metaphysics, shaping early Greek thought.

According to the accounts in Apollodorus’ Library of Greek Mythology and Hyginus’ Fabulae 53, Artemis was born on the island of Ortygia. In some versions of the story, this island was formed when the ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek government’s chief seismologist says the frequency of earthquakes affecting Santorini and nearby islands has eased in recent days, but that the outlook for ...

Greek mythology is sneaky. One moment you are just minding your own business and, before you know it, you are knee-deep in tales about gods throwing tantrums and mortals making terrible decisions.

In Norse Mythology, the goddess Freja is associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and farseeing magic. She is featured in many mythological stories and often in stories inspired by ...