From narrowly avoiding being eaten by his father as a baby to seducing mortal women as a swan or a bull, there were some ...

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.

Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved house in ancient Pompeii, featuring frescoes depicting scenes from Greek and ...

Turkey’s Olympos Beydagları National Park is home to the burning rocks of Yanartaş, where flames created by methane emissions ...

Yep, total power move, swallowing the wife. As king of the gods, Zeus could also, from his commanding position in the sky, ...

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Berlin (dpa) — Gods, heroes, villains, and mythical creatures abound in ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Norse tales. "Age of ...

Nike is the goddess who personifies victory in any field and is said to have had an overwhelming desire to always win, making ...

Many cultures around the world have a myth or legend about a tentacled beast bothering seamen or generally getting up to no good,' Jon says. In ancient Greece, Aristotle and Pliny wrote about teuthos ...

Foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys and tortoises. In Robin Waterfield’s translation of these ancient stories, animals are used to ...

People are being urged to double check their loose change for a rare £2 coin that features an iconic scene from Ancient Greek myth and legend. However, fewer people have probably heard of the ...

An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.