Have you ever heard of the heart-wrenching, questionable morality, and the romantically tragic tales interwoven into Greek mythology? For me, as a young child, I grew up adoring many of these ...

In Greek mythology, the beautiful Psyche is sent into the underworld to bring back a beauty potion to Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. She disobeys Aphrodite and opens the potion herself. As ...

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have ...

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

The Amazons, a mythical race of female warriors that inspired fictional heroes such as Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess, may have been more than ancient Greek lore. The Institute of ...

Kona Venkat believes that women consistently outshine their male counterparts in this “business of sending shivers down the ...

(The Conversation) — Female characters in Greek mythology lived under strict patriarchal rules, but they spoke truth to power and resisted injustice. As a scholar of ancient mythology, I’m aware of ...