Whether called Dionysus (his Greek name) or Bacchus (his Roman one), he is perhaps the strangest of the gods in the vast classical ... demanding to see Zeus in all his glory in this 17th-century ...

But the ancient Greeks beat all of these individuals to the ... Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a ...

In Greek mythology, Helios was one of the Titans, the gods who ruled over Greece before ... more than 900 camels were needed to carry it all away. During the third millennium B.C. , the advantages ...

Philosophy of mind is the main subject of Hart’s most recent book, All Things Are Full of Gods, a literary Platonic dialog between four Greek deities who spend six days in debate over many ...

But the opening ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, has insisted that the scene is not a reference at all to the Last ... van Bijlert depicting the Greek gods of Olympus crowded around ...