When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side ...

Cancer is a homebody, sincerely desiring to build safe havens for their loved ones. They have a heart of gold, full of sympathy, compassion, and love. Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, brings warmth ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

In Ancient Greece, professional curse writers were employed to hex the living and the dead from beyond the grave.

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

VIC 84TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF KALAMATA The Society of Kalamata ’23 March’ host the commemoration of the 84th ...

But the ancient Greeks beat all of these individuals to the punch by more than 2,000 years. As Adrienne Mayor, a classicist at Stanford University, argues in her 2018 book Gods and Robots ...

What if the secret to stronger teams isn’t in strategy, but in celebration? This ancient ritual holds the clue.

Father Jim Livingston, the pastor of St. Paul in Ham Lake, said that when he thinks of the idea of sacrificial love, he ...

Hot cross buns aren rsquo;t just a sweet snack that appears around Easter. They carry centuries of storytelling in their ...