Artists and storytellers tend to seek out inspiration, frequently latching on to a person or idea as their muse. But who were ...

According to ancient writers and Greek mythology, the muses are the sources of inspiration for the arts and knowledge.

In Tuesday’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax heads to International Park in Northwest D.C. to highlight the latest obscure monument — a statue of a mysterious muse, potentially dating ...

Konstantina Kotzamani arrives at Cannes Un Certain Regard with her debut feature "Titanic Ocean," a Japanese-language ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Lupita Nyong’o plays both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in The Odyssey. Confirmation comes from a profile of ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

When two British explorers excavated the remnants of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in 1861, many tombs had already been ...

On May 1st, 2026, the Wheel of the Year turns to Beltane, the festival of fire and fertility. It honors the God and Goddess and their life-giving union, and for the first time since 1988, this day is ...

These gods were a bit like humans, but they lived forever and were much more powerful. They felt human emotions, like love, anger and jealousy, and they did not always behave themselves. Every city in ...

A marble statue has been excavated from the ruins of an ancient Greek city. The statue is of the Goddess Athena, made out of white marble and stands about 2 metres tall. Excavation work in the Western ...

The indomitable Lady Columbia defends the United States with her snazzy patriotic shield, c. 1890. Library of Congress The first and longest-ruling mascot of the United States made her debut before ...