One interesting thing about the Athena Parthenos, however, is that this glorious expression of Athens' patron goddess stood on a base decorated with a representation of the birth of Pandora.

A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds. From here, they kept an eye on life below. From time to ...

and Judeo-Christian mythology. He discusses the Kore as Athena, Artemis, Hecate, and Demeter-Persephone, the mother-daughter of the Eleusinian mysteries. Jung speaks of the Divine Child and the Maiden ...

From narrowly avoiding being eaten by his father as a baby to seducing mortal women as a swan or a bull, there were some ...

Poseidon was the brother of Zeus and Hades, and one of the primary deities in the Olympian pantheon. He had a place with the other gods atop Mt. Olympus, but he mainly stayed within his domain in the ...

Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915 ... David Blight, Historian: This is the great myth of Reconstruction... that it was an oppressive set of regimes ...

She paid an emotional tribute to her youngest daughter on her third birthday Credit: instagram/@parisfury1 Athena is the second youngest child of Paris, 34, and Tyson, 35. They also share ...

Newborn babies' brains aren't "underdeveloped" compared with those of other primates at birth, a new study suggests. In the past, scientists typically compared brain development between species by ...

When South Korea develops new nuclear technology that threatens to shake up the world energy market, a terrorist group kidnap the president's daughter. Anti-terrorism agent Jung-woo must find the ...

A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw. The film covers the most important ...