Evangelical pastors are paid to project confidence. Their job is to assure us they are absolutely certain about the big stuff ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

Artemis is generally known as the ancient Greek goddess of hunting; however, she was a deity with various cults associated ...

Seek your lover in the daytime, says Ovid. Be careful of the night. You won't choose the right person if you're drunk. And ...

Theatre productions about nursing home escapees, a Greek mythology-obsessed drag club, and five friends bonding over a girls' night out will come to the Baltimore area in July.

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious frescoes not seen for more than 1,800 years.

Haut-relief sculptures on the sarcophagus show a wine-drinking contest between Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, and the legendary Roman hero, Hercules.

Apollo, the Greek god of archery and the son of Zeus, was a prominent deity in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The Sanctuary of Apollo was first discovered by German archaeologist Max ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus depicting Greek gods Hercules and Dionysus in a drinking contest. The rare artefact, dated to the second or third century AD, was ...

The truth is that it wasn’t entirely an invention, since some experts believe that gods like Zeus and his Roman version, Jupiter, likely derived from a Proto-Indo-European precedent, a supreme sky ...