490 BC. When people hear “myth” or “mythology,” they often think of fictional stories, but for early Greek poets, myths were more than fiction—they were an art form, embedding truths ...
Jeff Goldblum appears as Zeus in the new Greek mythology-inspired series KAOS on Netflix. Credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr, CC BY-2.0 KAOS is a popular new series from Netflix that draws inspiration from ...
“Orestes Being Pursued by the Furies,” by William Adolphe Bouguereau 1862. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Many people have at least heard of the name Orestes, which is the name of a ...
As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup of nothingness. Then, two things happened: either Chaos or Gaia created the universe as we know it, or Ouranos and Tethys gave birth to the ...