Ancient Greek sanctuaries were places of worship, but they also served as business centers, attracting large numbers of ...

Thanks to Homer and his Odyssey we met Circe who has often been identified as the first witch of Greek Mythology.

Learn more about "Larva Convivalis,” or banquet ghosts that served as a morbid reminder that you won’t live forever, so live ...

The French call it Joie de vivre… exuberant enjoyment of life. The Italians refer to it as the joy of being alive. The ...

Tony Harrison, who has died at 88, was an acclaimed and erudite poet and dramatist who brought the authentic, left-wing voice of working-class Yorkshire to the theatre, film and TV.

Aging frightens most people. The ancients personified it as a ghostly figure. The Greeks called him Geras, a bent and ...

Seven years after the end of the war, when the rest of the kings of Greece had already returned, or their deaths had been confirmed, a number of suitors arrived at Odysseus’ home to try to force a ...

In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...

The Heart of Dixie Although Alabama doesn’t have an official nickname, the nickname that’s most commonly used is “Heart of Dixie,” according to the Alabama state archives. Others include the Cotton ...

AUTHOR Kieran Fanning has just published Enchanted Ireland, a collection of magical tales, one from every county in Ireland.

In other words, you’re constantly battling the feeling that there’s simply not enough time. But what if you could reframe the way you think about time? Well, you can. It involves learning a little ...

Only twelve examples of the larva convivialis are known, with the 2.6 inch figurine now housed at Getty Villa in Los Angeles.