The Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel bone, is named for the legendary Greek warrior whose weak spot was his heel. But a new study adds to growing evidence that ...

Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s festering injuries by scraping rust from his spear into the wound. First century A.D., bas-relief, Herculaneum. How ancient is ...

A mosaic depicting an Amazon warrior ... the Greek god of violence and war. Her battle skills were legendary, leading her to side with King Priam in the Trojan war, but she eventually came up against ...

Wolfgang Petersen’s directorial, Troy, is one of the most popular historical dramas, starring Brad Pitt as the Greek hero Achilles ... to embody the look of a warrior—with long blonde hair ...

Stuck at home, Medusa tries to cut her own unruly curls. In his series Greek Quarantology, illustrator Jonathan Muroya recasts Greek gods and myths to creatively capture aspects of life during the ...