Women writers in Renaissance Italy faced strict limits on what they could study, publish, and discuss in public. Yet poets Gaspara Stampa and Isabella Andreini found ways to challenge those rules. A study led by Nicla Riverso shows how...
When scientists of the International Commission on Stratigraphy describe the Hadean Eon, the earliest age of our planet, what strikes us is how familiar this chaos feels when compared to Greek mythology. The ICS, a global body of geologists,...
A flood myth is a story found in various civilizations about a world ending flood, usually brought about by a god or deities. According to such stories, the flood was a punishment for people’s misbehavior.
Some of these myths portray the...
All around the world, there are ancient records of a global flood that wiped out humanity early in human history. The most famous version of this is the account of Noah's Flood from the Bible, but there is also...
In the seventh century BCE, the Greek poet Homer wrote the Odyssey. This fascinating tale of adventure and loss would captivate readers for centuries, even millennia. It tells the story of Odysseus attempting to travel home after the Trojan War.
One...
The Trojan War was the legendary conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans. However, it did not just involve Greeks from the mainland. A large part of the Grecian army came from some Greek islands in the Aegean, such...
Greek mythology came to life on canvas through numerous vibrant artworks, many of which have transcended into world-famous masterpieces of paining.
Throughout history, mythological subjects have fascinated the minds of people who continue to admire ancient legends captured by painters...
The Bible's story of Adam and Eve serves to explain how death and suffering entered the world. The ancient Greeks also had stories about this same issue. However, beyond just having stories about the same general idea, can we...
Greek mythology features many strange and fantastical locations. One such location was a group of islands known as the Isles of the Blessed. They feature in many ancient Greek records. What do these records tell us? And were the...
