The queen of the gods; goddess of women's sexuality, fertility, and marriage; and Zeus' wife (and sister, as Kaos reminds us). Hera holds a grudge and will often seek brutal vengeance against Zeus ...

Before you step into the world of Hadestown, it helps to know that this Tony-winning musical isn’t just a love story—it’s a retelling of ancient Greek myths, reimagined with a soulful, folk ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Saheem Ali’s musical, about the goddess of music finding refuge and love at an Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya, has been nearly 20 years in the making. “Goddess ...

The birth of Aphrodite Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...

The myth of the goddess Eurydice, in Greek mythology the wife of Orpheus, is a compelling one for Ziegler. She cited fellow playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice” as “a really important play ...

Hardy says the names of these krewes in New Orleans and the surrounding areas have been taken from Greek and Roman mythology: Adonis, Argus, Atlas, Bacchus, Dionysus, Endymion, Hermes, Iris ...

Greek mythology is a pillar of both Accademia coursework and this middle grade saga, but the novel is most inventive when Marsh (a 2023 National Book Award finalist for “The Lost Year”) finds ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos.Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos was said to have guarded the island of Crete, off the coast of Greece.