Medea and Jason are a successful couple—a true 'power couple.' They have the perfect child, the perfect home, and their ...

The only surviving funerary relief of the ancient Greek world depicting twin babies in the same arms was unveiled in Athens.

In playwriting and fiction, we call it deus ex machina – literally, the “god out of the machine” – which has come to mean a miraculously happy or fortuitous ending to a long and agonizing drama.

The ancient Greeks deeply believed in the power of curses and their ability to influence the lives of individuals and even ...

Euripides most memorably turned to deus ex machina in Medea, where the title character – having been cheated on by her husband Jason – kills Jason’s mistress and their own two children.

In this surreal world, the newly dead arrive down a mysterious spiral chute or, as is the case with Jason and Medea, on ...

But what most critics have failed to note are the striking resemblance to the ancient Greek story of Medea and Jason. Ba strips the Greek tragedy to its barest essentials, to present a complex ...

When Medea stands on a platform with the children's corpses at her feet, her hands gloved in blood, and Jason — her faithless lover — laments having brought a barbarian into a civilized place ...

It was 70 years ago today, on 16 March 1955, that Adhemar Ferreira da Silva became the first man to triple jump beyond 16.50m ...

Smith's latest collaboration with the Soundwalk Collective was recently exhibited at Kurimanzutto in New York.

Jason later stole the fleece with the help of his problematic wife Medea, herself a suspected Aries. This myth of dragons, a daring rescue mission, and ritual sacrifice are emblematic of the bold ...