Heracles or Hercules according to Roman mythology is a prominent figure in Classical mythology and is considered among the most famous of all the Greek heroes. Heracles was born ...

Tiresias, the blind Ancient Greek prophet, could foresee the future for Apollo, and was transformed by Hera and lived as a woman for seven years ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

The beloved painting titled The Carols (Greek: Ta Kalanta) was produced in 1872 by the reputable Greek painter Nikiforos Lytras.

With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...

When the liturgy does not have the courage to confront ugly yet natural human impulses, art can provide a cultural space for ...

Archaeologists from the Antiquities Ephorate were called to the scene and after a preliminary investigation it became apparent that the sculpture was a well-preserved sculptured torso of the Ancient ...

The artist Marlon Mullen goes through a meticulous process of preparing before painting at NIAD, an art center for developmentally disabled adults in Richmond, Calif.Credit...Jason Henry for The ...

It's a position that he is not totally unfamiliar with, as he once served as the Greek God of War, but his relationship with his Norse compatriots, not to mention his more mature, pacifistic ...

who gets shipwrecked on a mysterious island that’s inexplicably home to a handful of Greek gods who have no idea who they are or what they’re doing there. While it’s clear that Alex is ...

For those unable to visit the Tokyo National Museum, where Iwasa Matabei’s famous 17th-century epic gold leaf painting “Rakuchu Rakugai Zu Byobu” currently hangs, the Gagosian gallery in ...