Ancient Greek myths of dragons, krakens, and other legendary creatures were inspired by real animals and fossils alike.

Depending on your age, it’s a fair chance that you learned about the Greek myths through one of a handful of routes. Perhaps it was through Roger Lancelyn Green’s Tales of the Greek Heroes, which has ...

Many writers hope their work will live beyond them. But when Greek poets and playwrights began recording their country’s myths and legends more than 2,700 years ago, they couldn’t have known quite how ...

Whatever the ferment of contemporary literary culture, the myths and legends of ancient Greece continue to be a rich source of story and reference. In our censorious era, there is something ...

We might think that the conception of robots, AI, and automated machines is a modern phenomenon, but, in fact, the idea had already appeared in Western literature nearly 3,000 years ago. Long before ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this episode, Zoe chats with Dee about why so many of the iconic Greek myths - from Zeus and ...

The origins of ancient Greek city names like Athens and Olympia reflect mythology, history, and the development of Greek ...

Iris is the Greek goddess of rainbows, symbolic of carrying messages between the divine world to humankind. October-borns ...

Zoe Terakes, star of Wentworth and Ironheart, has added another string to her bow, publishing a collection of short stories inspired by ancient tales — with a queer twist.