At Agios Athanasios, a rugged site in northern Ithaca known since the 19th century as the “School of Homer,” a team led by ...

Novels that explore Greek mythology from the point of view of “silenced” women now constitute their own popular genre: Madeline Miller’s “Circe” (2018), Natalie Haynes’s “A Thousand ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has an ensemble of a star-studded cast, including Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway ...

The Odyssey – the latest cinematic endeavor from Christopher Nolan – has already sparked excitement even though its release is over a year away.

The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the Trojan royal Hecuba, the witch Circe, Odysseus’ patient wife, Penelope, and ...

The myth of the goddess Eurydice, in Greek mythology the wife of Orpheus, is a compelling one for Ziegler. She cited fellow playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice” as “a really important play ...

The film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, along with Tom Holland as his son Telemachus. The rest of the star-studded cast ...

where the characters are all borrowed from the Greek gods and legendary figures. In Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka, the eponymous mythological creature is brought to us in the eastern Slavic tradition, ...

Penelope is an elegant Greek name that means "weaver." Its origin is traced back to Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, a staple of Greek mythology that reached immense fame across the world.

Last year, the New York City Medical Examiner’s office revealed that even after 23 years of research it had yet to find any ...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has found its Circe in Charlize Theron, as the actress joins a star-studded ensemble set to bring Homer’s epic to life.

These legendary lives need the clutter cleared away from them occasionally. Lawrence Durrell and his brother Gerald turned ...