Like Odysseus and Orpheus, Theseus was a legendary hero of the distant past, supposedly an offspring of King Aegeus, a human being or the...

Lyre Player and Bird Fresco from the Throne Room of Nestor's palace in Pylos dated LH IIIB (about 1300 BCE). The story of Orpheus, like...

Multiple works by ancient sources, including varying origin stories, provide a wide-ranging and diverse picture of Medusa. From early...

From the beginning the Greeks’ poetry was intended to be sung or recited. The subject was myth—part legend, part folktale, part religious...

Marble hoplite statue, thought to be Leonidas, 5th c. BCE, Archæological Museum of Sparta. Leonidas – meaning Lion Like - is a name that...