The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of...
Mythology
As warlike nomadic herdsmen began to dominate in Mesopotamian culture, they imposed their mythologies on preexisting legends....
If you dig deep enough, you can find some truth to legends and creation stories. Introduction Myths...
Mesopotamian myths appear to have had a more practical purpose and were used to cure and prevent...
Meet one of the greatest of all the characters in ancient Greek drama. Elektra’s Story To understand...
A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq depicts the demon that the ancient Assyrians thought caused epilepsy....
It contains so many incredible violations of the laws of nature that it cannot possibly be accepted...
Introduction The mythology of any civilization reflects its core values, greatest fears, and highest hopes and so...
Analyzing how historical, legendary, and mythological elements are woven through the text of Beowulf? Originally published by...
The tale begins after Ra had created the world and was king of the gods and humanity....
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
Tablet with Instructions for the Deceased in the Underworld, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 7/8 × 1 7/16...
Head of Janus, Vatican museum, Rome / Photo by Loudon dodd, Wikimedia Commons Sage advice from the ancients...
Detail from The Temple of Janus by Peter Paul Rubens. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons On January 1, we...
The grandeur that early European explorers had come to expect in royal building programs seems to have been...
Passing lion, brick panel from the Procession Way which ran from the Marduk temple to the Ishtar...
/ An Aztec ceremonial knife with a cedarwood handle and flint blade. The figure of the handle is covered...
Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina (or Uruinimgina), lugal (prince) of Lagash. The inscription reads: “He [Uruinimgina] dug...
The Tauroctony / Photo by CristianChirita, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Wikimedia Commons The Roman deity Mithras appears in the historical record in the...
Sacello Ipogeico (Heroon), Paestum, Italy / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Hero cults were one of the most...
Puerto Rico: Capilla del Cristo Old San Juan / Wikimedia Commons Taking a look at the long...
With moralistic gods watching, it’s easier to be fair and cooperative. Olivier, CC BY-NC-ND For human groups to grow from small,...
Photo by bl3w, Flickr, Creative Commons Tracing the notion of ekplexis in Greek rhetoric and the connections in etymology, myth,...
We speak of Greek religions or “cults” in the plural, though most of them shared similarities. Curated/Reviewed by...
The limestone Pyramidion of Ramose, from the top of the tomb of the ‘Necropolis Scribe’. Scenes on all four...
“Phèdre et Hippolyte” (1802), by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin / Wikimedia Commons Classical discussions often get caught between that...
The Sebasteion, excavated in 1979-81, was a grandiose temple complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors...
The Sacred Way at Delphi with the remains of the Athenians’ Treasury The Delphic Oracle belonged to...
The Triumph of Civilization / Photo by Grizzli, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Wikimedia Commons The enormous contribution of ancient...
Cylinder Seal with Griffins, Humans and a Winged Disk / Walters Art Museum, Wikimedia Commons The religions...