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

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

For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

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 ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is based on Homer's ancient Greek epic of the same name. Matt Damon leads the cast as ...

Odysseus played an influential role as a strategist and advisor. The war lasted more than 10 years until the Greeks retreated from their camp, leaving a large, wooden horse outside the gates of Troy.

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

More than 100 coins from ancient cities, minted in different ancient Greek city-states and dated from the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE, were found at the excavation site.

Outside of his home, Odysseus was a warrior; he cannot truly return until he remembers how to be a king, a father, a husband and a son. Individualism vs. the hero Odysseus’ famous homecoming – his ...