New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Pieter Paul Rubens’s The Abduction of Hippodamia, or Lapiths and Centaurs, 1636–38. (Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) Metamorphoses, by the Roman poet Ovid, is a collection ...

Did Zeus use his immense power solely for good? Was Jason really a great hero who sailed across the sea to find the Golden Fleece or a selfish lout who succeeded only with the help of a clever and ...

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...

From the collaborators behind Greek Myths and Greek Gods and Goddesses, Roman Myths retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illus. by Emma Chichester Clark, offers 15 stories including ""Dreams of Destiny: ...

Philandering spouses. Envious brothers. Vindictive sisters. Heroic battles. Bloodshed. Tales passed down in Greek and Roman myths, Yoruba religion or Santeria — among others — have provided plots for ...

The Sabines, a Spartan tribe, shaped the early Romans with their martial skill, social order, and lasting cultural and ...