Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas, was originally a Minoan deity called Poteidan or Potidas. What do we know about this ...

Some were even perfumed, in an attempt to transform them into the lifelike embodiments of gods, goddesses, and rulers ... was ...

Beehive Books is transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic retellings of Greek mythology through fifteen original paintings ...

For ancient Greeks, every waterway was protected by nymphs. They were invariably ageless young girls who existed even before ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering “lesser known” clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine, Dionysus, in the ...

For a look at a Greek art exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts, 2,500 Londoners a day plunked ... Art: Gods and Men; Art: Gods and Men. 4 minute read. TIME. March 11, 1946 12:00 AM GMT-5. ...

Among them is “The Feast of the Gods," a 17th century painting from Dutch artist Jan van Bijlert depicting the Greek gods of Olympus crowded around a long table.

The continuing discoveries at Pompeii 05:42. An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried ...