Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish ...

Many people have heard the name of Orestes, a prominent figure of ancient Greek mythology, but how many of us know his ...

There are many strong and powerful women, or femme fatales, in Greek mythology, such as Circe, Clytemnestra, Artemisia, and Medea.

The article highlights the remarkable stories of powerful women in Hindu mythology, such as Durga, Sita, Kali, Draupadi, ...

Greek mythology is sneaky. One moment you are just minding your own business and, before you know it, you are knee-deep in tales about gods throwing tantrums and mortals making terrible decisions.

In Norse Mythology, the goddess Freja is associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and farseeing magic. She is featured in many mythological stories and often in stories inspired by ...

Celtic mythology is comprised of legends and lore from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany. Each Celtic culture has its own language and traditions, but there is some ...

Richard Strauss called his second-to-last opera, Die Liebe der Danae (completed in 1940), “a cheerful mythology in three ... in Strauss’s retelling of the Greek myth. His librettist, Joseph ...