The ancient world is filled with strange and powerful beings whose stories shaped the way people understood creation. Among ...

Ancient Greek myths of dragons, krakens, and other legendary creatures were inspired by real animals and fossils alike.

It’s tough to find new ways of approaching ancient Greek myths. They’re some of the oldest stories in the book — before the book, even, told in innumerable variations. But two local companies are ...

We might think that the conception of robots, AI, and automated machines is a modern phenomenon, but, in fact, the idea had already appeared in Western literature nearly 3,000 years ago. Long before ...

A new study suggests that an ivory shoulder in ancient Greek mythology may represent the earliest prosthetic shoulder ...

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Many writers hope their work will live beyond them. But when Greek poets and playwrights began recording their country’s myths and legends more than 2,700 years ago, they couldn’t have known quite how ...

Whatever the ferment of contemporary literary culture, the myths and legends of ancient Greece continue to be a rich source of story and reference. In our censorious era, there is something ...

The staggering numbers of mass shootings in the U.S. mark our collective failure to restrain our most destructive impulses and to cultivate our constructive ones. More than 3,000 years ago, the ...

Zoe Terakes, star of Wentworth and Ironheart, has added another string to her bow, publishing a collection of short stories ...