Athena, a goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of Athens, was one of the most popular deities in the Greek ...

An ancient royal tomb found in Gordion, Turkey, sheds light on Phrygian royalty, King Midas myths, and Alexander the Great’s ...

Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus paradox questions if identity remains when all parts change, challenging what it means to be the ...

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A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Greek island of Crete early this morning, Thursday 22 May. The tremor was felt across several Aegean islands, areas of mainland Greece ...

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He covered all the water realm of the Greek Cosmos. Okeanos was the nursery ... The Greeks dressed it with fantastic mythology, philosophy, theology, hydrology (from ύδωρ, water), history ...

The story of the twelve labors tells the tale of Heracles’s journey from a sinful pariah to the ancient world’s most revered hero. To atone for a crime he committed while under the curse of his ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...