Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Aspendos in southwestern Türkiye recently uncovered a life-size statue of the ...

Asclepius was the first iatromantis. Credit: GreekReporter archive Melampus, a legendary figure in ancient Greek mythology, is renowned as one of the earliest and most powerful iatromantis—a seer and ...

The caduceus, a staff with two snakes coiled around it, has been the symbol of the medical field for centuries, going back to ancient Greek mythology where the God of Healing Asclepius would use ...

Typhon was one of the most fearsome monsters in Greek mythology, often described as the deadliest creature ever born. He was a primordial giant associated with chaos and destruction, and he was ...

Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown is a modern retelling of the story of lovers Orpheus and Eurydice . In ancient Greece, Orpheus was considered the greatest of ...

Greek mythology is sneaky. One moment you are just minding your own business and, before you know it, you are knee-deep in tales about gods throwing tantrums and mortals making terrible decisions.

While there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing between different objects and people in Urban Myth Dissolution Center, there's none of that frustrating chucking a list of verbs at the wall to see which ...

Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more like sung psychodrama – uses the poet Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre to explore the fallout from the character ...

An amazing variety of ancient Greek healing herbs can be found today in the "Asclepius Path" on Mount Kerketion, where, according to Greek mythology, the ancient Greek god of medicine, Asclepius, used ...