Myths have had a huge influence on the world. Although they may not be true, the events of Greek myth may have taken place in ...

For his final task, Eurystheus ordered Heracles to go to the Underworld and bring back Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog ...

Eurysthenes was a semi-mythical figure in ancient Greek history. He was renowned as one of the Heracleidae, descendants of Heracles, who led the Dorian ... While many details of his life are rooted in ...

Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan ...

The coin features the goddess Athena on one side and Hercules slaying the Nemean lion on the reverse. A slab covering the tomb also featured an engraving of a man on horseback, likely depicting a ...

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and starts very early in the 16th century. By now it has been seen by ...

Those who are well-versed in Greek mythology likely recognize many scenes from myths in famous artworks. In fact, apart from religious scenes, images from Greek mythology are one of the most common ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

And that love can continue through the teen years. There's more than just Greek and Roman mythology, too. The fantastic (in every sense of the word) books on this list draw from Indian, Norse, ...