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The cult of the ancient Greek goddess Athena allowed certain Athenian women liberties that extended beyond the roles of ...
Greek mythology is full of unknown gods remaining in the shadows of the well-known Zeus, Ares, or the patroness of hunting, ...
Step back in time to ancient Greece, where love took a most extraordinary form. In the myth of Pygmalion, the skilled sculptor whose heart yearned for a love beyond the ordinary. From a dreamy vision ...
The answer lies in Nashville’s nickname: “The Athens of the South,” earned for its commitment to education and the arts in ...
Memories of a long ago trip to Greece and an aging author who gave its myths life still speak to many elders who recognize ...
According to Greek legend, goddesses known as Keres watched over battlefields — but they weren't there to protect the ...
In The Sandman, the beings known as the Grey Sisters appear as cryptic oracles who guide, tease, and eventually haunt Dream.
We talk to Josie Grindrod, one of the creators of a new exhibition of artworks probing the imagery that defines the feminine ideal of a young woman in her prime.
From Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing series to the resurgence of Wicked, fantasy books have all but taken over the best-sellers lists as of late. And if you’re one of the readers who’s been gobbling them ...
Anna Ziegler’s world premiere play is a story of two wives from different millennia whose husbands have been missing for 20 years ...
The museum gave no hint of the price it had paid for its new Aphrodite, but called the statue the artistic equal of the Uffizi’s Medici Venus—which was probably copied from the same Greek ...