To begin with — there is no “dark side of the moon,” a phrase I heard repeatedly during the recent epic flight of Artemis II — not just from newscasters but once from a former astronaut. The moon ...

Artemis Mission, Artemis Goddess: NASA has a long history of naming its missions after mythological figures. Starting in the ...

When did the age of Greek mythology end and Greek history begin? Was it just after the Mycenaean Era, or was it much later?

Recently, the world got a rare treat: new frescoes were unearthed from Pompeii that show mythological scenes from the Trojan ...

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

Hey, babe. Wanna be a prophetess?” Apollo asked. “Who wants to know?” responded Cassandra, daughter of King Priam and the youngest princess of Troy. “I am Apollo, God of the ...

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

The Olympian gods were far more than distant figures worshipped in ancient temples. They were powerful personalities whose ...

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The Pythagoras Cup, Greece’s ancient “greedy cup,” offers a playful way to explore Greek wine, Samos, Santorini, history, ...

Artists and storytellers tend to refer to a person or idea as their muse. But who were the original Muses, the Greek ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...