The Greek word Philoxenia, literally translated as a "friend to a stranger", is widely perceived to be synonymous to ...

The Pillars of Hercules are mentioned in Greek mythology frequently, but what were they? Lets examine the answer to that ...

From Apollo to Zeus, the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses are the most powerful deities in the pantheon of ancient Greek mythology and religion. The Greek gods — and the Roman gods they inspired — ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...

Many Greek gods and goddesses were associated with battle, but Ares was known as the one true Greek god of war (not to be confused with Kratos, the protagonist of the "God of War" video game franchise ...

Archaeologists from the Antiquities Ephorate were called to the scene and after a preliminary investigation it became apparent that the sculpture was a well-preserved sculptured torso of the Ancient ...

Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

Across the 24 books of Homer’s Iliad, the epic account of Achilles’ wrath at the siege of Troy, there are 240 battlefield ...

Louisa writes - This metal figure is a bronze head of a satyr, a free-spirited creature commonly associated with woodland in ...

Hera’s origins are tied deeply with the earliest days of Greek religious practices, and worship of her was widespread across ... Among the most famous myths involving Hera are those related to the ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, ...

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