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Female demon names have roots in various cultures and appear in Jewish lore, Greek tales, Mesopotamian myths, and Hindu ...
The island of Jeju in South Korea is home to the Greek Mythology Museum where visitors can immerse themselves in the world of ...
Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...
Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for ...
First, though, why do we still remember those Greek myths from so long ago? Although this is a piece about the women of the legends, and how they’re finding their way to centre stage at last ...
And if Greek myths are timeless enough to have inspired the work of James Joyce (“Ulysses”) and T.S. Eliot (part of “The Waste Land”), aren’t they good enough for today’s creative minds?
In the decade-plus since, novels that put a new spin on Greek epics like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, along with myths from the story of Medusa to that Orpheus and Eurydice, have found eager readers.
A Greek mythology obsession is basically a middle school rite of passage (right up there with the classic Ancient Egypt hyper-fixation). There’s something larger-than-life about Greek myths that ...
Greek mythology has also seeped into other corners of pop culture, showing up in TV, comics, graphic novels and video games, making it feel more accessible and less like an elite, scholarly field.
What might Greek mythology have to tell us about the largest crisis looming in our own time: the COVID-19 pandemic? Last summer—during a brief respite from spikes of COVID-19, when theatres ...