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How did the Greeks explain the fact that their gods no longer interacted much with humans during the historical era?
Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and ...
I brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...
A pirated teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's next film "The Odyssey" has appeared online, causing a stir on the internet.
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...
Mamdani's socialism is unacceptable, but the former governor is himself an unacceptable choice for mayor of New York City.
His first novel has just won a prestigious Nebula Award; now John Wiswell puts his humorous and humanist spin on the labours of Heracles.
Greek mythology and its stories of love, power, betrayal, and tragedy have fascinated many generations. But let’s also take a look at some of the writers and their works who are reframing these corpus ...
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 ...
But Odysseus got home — eventually — by being adaptable. Achilles won glory, but at a steep cost to himself and to those around him. Seventeen years later, NatWest is fully back in private hands.