In the fifth century B.C., the playwright Sophocles begins “Oedipus Tyrannos” with the title character struggling to identify the cause of a plague striking his city, Thebes. (Spoiler alert: It’s his ...

Ancient Greek stories are filled with dramatic twists, yet few tales hit the heart as deeply as the story of Iphigenia. She was a young princess caught in a moment where family duty, war, pride, and ...

Myths have had a huge influence on the world. Although they may not be true, the events of Greek myth may have taken place in ...

(The Conversation) — Stories in Greek mythology on the cycle of nature showing youth, death and rejuvenation can have lessons for us today on how grief changes over time and transforms who we are as ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Readers Beware! Illustrated Stories from the Greek Myths are not for the ...

In the world of ancient Greek stories, some spirits inspired awe, some inspired worship, and some existed mainly to frighten children into behaving. Among these fearsome figures was Mormo, a night ...

For as long as we’ve told stories, we’ve mixed fact with fiction: cities swallowed by the sea, warrior women, forgotten civilisations. While there is a lot of fantasy thrown in, there is usually some ...

Madeline Miller’s hit 2011 novel The Song of Achilles, which reimagines The Iliad, sparked an enduring literary trend. In the decade-plus since, novels that put a new spin on Greek epics like Homer’s ...

Joel Christensen is an associate professor of classical studies at Brandeis. This article is republished from The Conversation. Read the original article. In the fifth century B.C., the playwright ...

Joel Christensen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...