Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Athena presides over the voting for the award of the arms of ...

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 ...

From the Midas touch to a Sisyphean task, from Pandora’s box to Achilles’ heel, characters from classical Greek and Roman mythology have an inescapable presence in everyday life and language. Their ...

Harpies are bird-like messengers of Zeus, sent by the Olympian ruler to punish humans for their crimes. They embody sudden gusts of wind that carry away human souls. I decided to depict them bathing ...

The staggering numbers of mass shootings in the U.S. mark our collective failure to restrain our most destructive impulses and to cultivate our constructive ones. More than 3,000 years ago, the ...

How did the ancient Greeks think about technology? Were they techno-optimists or pessimists? How do their myths – of Pandora, Odysseus, Talos, and Icarus – parallel to the technological possibilities ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

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