The tale of Salmoneus, the king who dared to imitate Zeus, reveals ancient fears of hubris, madness, and divine punishment.

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: it is the power of God unto salvation for all those who believe, the Jew first and also ...

In the Western Peloponnese, archaeologists have unearthed a monumental discovery that reshapes the understanding of ancient Greek religious practices. Near the coastal village of Samikon, a ...

Xenophanes was the ancient Greek philosopher who boldly challenged traditional views of the gods and questioned divine ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, ... There were religious reasons for the practice.

The Greeks imagined that plants were colorless in the underworld because white was the color of ghosts. The dead lived in meadows of asphodel , a grayish-white flower, and pale willows and white ...

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in their apprenticeship to virtue. . . .” Threat of Destruction. This poem is a miracle.

Religious Developments on the Greek Mainland during the Bronze Age/Iron Age Transition,” in Religion and Power in the Ancient Greek World (1996) 27-57 [all] C Sourvinou-Inwood, Review of B.C. Dietrich ...