It’s just another way of “keeping it in the family.” A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max ...

If you wanted to hang on to your land in Bronze Age Greece, you could do worse than marry your cousin. A team of international researchers analyzing the genomes of ancient human remains has discovered ...

Linda: Carl Jung coined the term archetype and defined it as the universal symbols in the mind that can be observed in dreams and myths. Archetypes represent our potential laying dormant in our ...

As a classicist, I am often asked for Greek and Roman reflections on love for holidays and weddings. I usually admit at the outset that ancient ideas about love rarely match modern expectations. Take, ...

The May 14 letter, "Marriage debate wasn't about love," was, no doubt, heartfelt. But it unfortunately contained some errors of fact. The letter stated, "Leave our marriage laws alone. They come from ...

The Heraion of Samos, devoted to Hera, was among the most important sanctuaries of ancient Greece, believed to be the goddess ...