The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

The story of the marathon begins in the rugged hills of ancient Greece, where long-distance running was not a pastime but a ...

The Thesmophoria was a prominent ancient Greek festival dedicated to Demeter, goddess of agriculture, and her daughter Persephone, celebrating the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. The festival, ...

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s ...

UC scholars presented ancient Greek findings at the Met, revealing discoveries from a 3,500-year-old warrior's grave.

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

In the world of ancient Greek stories, some spirits inspired awe, some inspired worship, and some existed mainly to frighten ...

Truth means describing reality. It is a statement that tells what things actually are. While technically, the understanding is that truth describes reality, many people do not know this. Many ...

The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday to the Milan Cortina Winter Games — missing a little of its usual magic. Bad weather lashing western Greece forced organizers to move the torch-lighting ...

In many ways, Thanksgiving is the first in-person report that many parents get from their college-student offspring.

Some gods ruled storms, some ruled seas, and some ruled the night sky. But in the deep, quiet corners of Greek mythology ...