Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

A study examining the myth surrounding the deaths of artists analyzes how popular beliefs emerge from random and ...

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

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Russell Crowe is set to wage war on the Roman Empire once more, with the Gladiator Oscar-winner set to lead the cast of the ...

Mythology has been the core of many peoples lives and continues to directly, and indirectly, guide entire civilizations ...

A University of Chicago historian has taken up the battle against inaccuracies in director Ridley Scott's latest film, ...

For those of us who grew up in the 1980s and 90s, Austin Pinders was a fixture in downtown Basseterre. Children at Convent School, now ICCS, remember his presence all too well—the disheveled “crazy ...

Using Christina Ricci's Cat Full of Spiders deck, here's what Halloween has in store for you, according to a tarot reader ...

Bal wampirów' (Dance of the Vampires) gave the director an excellent opportunity to mock this myth to his heart’s content.

A recently excavated house contains at least four paintings including an artistic depiction of copulation between a satyr and a nymph.

Why is what some might call the most classic, or perhaps conservative, of all sexual positions named after missionaries? It's time to pull back the covers of this erotic origin story and see what's ...