According to Greek myth, the origin of spiders can be traced back to a talented weaver named Arachne, whose tapestries were ...

The Sandman season 2's flashbacks show the famous Greek tale about Orpheus and Eurydice (Ella Rumpf) play out much as it does ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Was the Kraken a sea monster in Greek mythology? If not, where did it come from and what was its ancient Greek counterpart?

But Dionysus is associated with great cats in Greek myth – specifically, panthers and leopards. He’s often seen on Greek vases and mosaics wearing leopard skins, or even riding the animals.. Another ...

This article contains spoilers for Kaos. Kaos is a modern-day, darkly comic reworking of Greek myth. If, like me, you got hooked on it, you might be wondering what was actually taken from myth and ...

In Greek myth, Tereus was the King of Thrace who raped his sister-in-law and cut out her tongue to prevent her from telling anybody but she told her sister via embroidery. 27.

Parker, Robert, Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Oxford 1983). V. Myth and Religion in Greek Literature. Choose two, or one with follow-up of your choice, to be approved by ...

Editor Amanda Ferreira loves Greek retellings – her university minor was in ancient Greek and Roman studies, and she recently returned from a bucket-list trip to Greece – but she suspects the ...