The Return is a curious way of adapting Greek mythology, cutting out the fantastical part of the story to focus on the final ...

The short-lived reunion between Odysseus and his dog Argos is one of the most touching moments in Greek mythology. Credit: James Baldwin / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Hollywood movies like ...

From epic journeys to powerful characters, Greek mythology has fascinated audiences and readers for centuries. With ancient ...

The director and co-stars of The Return, a Hollywood movie based on the last rhapsody of Homer's Odyssey attended its Greek premiere.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis inaugurated the Odysseus Elytis Museum, honouring the late Greek Nobel Prize-winning poet, ...

The flag was raised in the port of Crete’s largest city in front of the fortress of Koules. In the sky of Heraklion, a Greek flag of gigantic dimensions was raised again this year for the anniversary ...

Poseidon was the brother of Zeus and Hades, and one of the primary deities in the Olympian pantheon. He had a place with the other gods atop Mt. Olympus, but he mainly stayed within his domain in the ...

"What’s so great about Odysseus as a Greek hero is he’s not all butch, hench, warrior. He’s a thinker. He came up with the Trojan Horse [...] he comes up with all kinds of clever ideas.

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

Ever stopped to consider what the story of Odysseus can reveal about our encounters with ‘the Other’, or how Narcissus can explain modern-day consumerism? Yiannis Gabriel shares how Greek mythology ...

in particular the Trojan War and the subsequent decade-long wanderings of wily Greek hero Odysseus back home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy, as recounted in Homer’s foundational epic poem.