The Ancient Greek winter revolved around Hestia’s hearth and the city’s sacred flame, signifying the importance of fire in ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

Numerous customs and cultural practices of the Minoan civilization from Crete have been preserved through the Christian ...

Walk into any museum and you'll see them. Those ancient statues with generous hips, full breasts, and rounded bellies.For ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Unearthed off the coast of Alexandria, the vessel may have once measured 115 feet long. Experts think it would have held a ...

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

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Over the years there have been gods for creation, death, love, war, and everything in between. Zeus, Hera, and their companions on Mount Olympus, Odin, Frigg, and the rest of the Æsir, Osiris, Isis, ...

Ephippus, in a surviving fragment of his lost pamphlet depicting the court of Alexander the Great in 324-323 BC, alleges that Alexander liked to cross-dress as the Greek archer-goddess Artemis.

Archaeologists working at the site of the ancient Turkish city Attouda have uncovered a ritual site dedicated to the Phrygian mother goddess, Matar. The site, complete with a cave and a “twin rock ...

Suffolk County now has its first Greek Orthodox Cathedral after the worldwide spiritual leader of that religion bestowed the title on a parish in Southampton. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch ...