The author of the Myth of Monsters series recommends works that tell, or retell, these strange and wonderful stories for ...

The myth of Triptolemus presents him as a hero of agriculture, reflecting ancient Greece’s role as a cradle of early ...

Both Hindu mythology and Greek legends have a king of the gods who rules over heaven and wields thunder and lightning as their ultimate weapon. In Hinduism, it’s Indra, and in Greek mythology ...

In Greek mythology: The daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae of Crete, who is known for helping Theseus escape the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. In KAOS: Known as Ari and played by Leila ...

Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the siren, despite the fact that ...

While appearing in Greek mythology, BBC explains, “The oldest-known ouroboros appeared on a golden shrine in the tomb of Tutankhamen – ‘King Tut’ – in Egypt in the 13th Century BC.” ...

ATHENS, Greece – A Greek archaeologist believes he has found a fragment of the lost throne of the rulers of Mycenae, famous from ancient myth and the story of the Trojan War.

One of the most famous stories of Greek mythology is the tale of King Midas, whose touch turned all to gold. Nearly 3,000 years after his death, we know King Midas by unforgettable stories told by ...

According to Greek myth, the gods condemned Sisyphus, the ruthless king of Corinth, to the fruitless, never-ending task of rolling a heavy stone up a hill only for it to roll back down again.