Researchers landed on an uninhabited island known for its archaeological ruins and started looking for snakes, lizards and other reptiles.

While the lizard is dying, the magician recites an incantation ... from a document known as Descriptions of Greece, written by Greek traveller and geographer Pausanias in the second century ...

People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds.