Father Nicholas Vieron will offer his humor-laced teachings, wisdom and ideas to Memphis at least one more year starting Jan. 15. It's no coincidence that the 92-year-old's weekly Adult Greek ...

Without all their riffing, some of which has survived only in fragmentary form, we wouldn’t know as much as we do about, say, Hercules (aka Heracles or Herakles), the demigod whose strength and ...

Brimming with life lessons, ... Their perspective relates a refreshingly new experience to the often told battle of Troy." ... 10 Novels Based on Greek Myths You’ll Love—From Hades to Ariadne ...

But no work of ancient literature is as obsessed with unburied bodies as Sophocles’ “Antigone,” a tragedy first produced in Athens around 442 B.C.: the entire plot centers on the controversy ...

FACTCHECKING 'THE IMMORTALS': What Greek Myths The Movie Gets Right And Wrong. ... Like the megahit "300," the film spins tales of ancient Greek heroes and their war against the gods.

Greek Lessons feels like a departure from Han Kang's other English-translated novels; tugging bit by bit at the heartstrings, readers are left speechless with both sadness and hope by the final pages.

Yet Greek Lessons is more than the story of two individuals finding a way to reach each other. There is a third entity that must be reckoned with: language itself.

Queer and gender-flipped versions of Greek myths are part of the new landscape too. ... “They could all have their own novels,” she said. Alexandra Alter writes about books, ...