For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

The opening ceremony of the “Greek mythology digital art carnival” was held in Beijing on April 3. The event was hosted by conglomerate Wanda and supported by the Greek Embassy in China. The ...

Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the siren, despite the fact that ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the millennia.

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events.

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

The author of the Myth of Monsters series recommends works that tell, or retell, these strange and wonderful stories for ...

4 THE roots of modern Greek sculpture must be sought in nineteenth century neo-classicism, when Greek sculptors, bent on continuing the art of Praxiteles, accepted Canova as their model.