Greek literature discounts all the positive sensations of the beach and the sea and focuses on the negative ones in order to stress the discomfort the ancient Greeks felt about the beach and the sea ...

Yet the beach was not all bad for the Greeks. Because the beach acted as a bridge between sea and land, the Greeks thought ...

Before Nolan’s version hits the big screen, it’s worth revising these other great adaptations of Homer's epic.

Discover Mljet, Croatia’s greenest island—home to saltwater lakes, pine forests, ancient myths, and peaceful Adriatic charm.

Dionysus was a god the Greeks most happily imitated. Called Bacchus by the Romans, he was the privileged son of Zeus himself ...

The author of the Myth of Monsters series recommends works that tell, or retell, these strange and wonderful stories for ...

For the better part of a decade, we’ve been reckoning with the place that social media and online spaces should have in our ...

Corfu is just under 585 square kilometres. About five times the size of Mykonos. The pastel streets of Corfu's Old Town. Can ...

Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the siren, despite the fact that ...

An expert has said Scotland offers the “adventurous spirit” of The Odyssey as filming for Christopher Nolan’s movie adaptation of Homer’s epic poem has been taking place in Moray. Stars like Matt ...

Was Odysseus a real person or purely a mythic figure? In this documentary, we explore the historical, cultural, and thematic depth behind Homer’s Odyssey. From its Bronze Age roots to the emerging ...

It may be removed from the other Greek islands, but wild-at-heart Lesbos has been welcoming curious travellers for millennia ...