In fact, Confucius himself is believed to have compiled the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry. Titled Shi Jing, or ...

When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, with her abode the sky, was perhaps the most resplendent of all the beings in the Greek pantheon.

The answer to five down in the Nov. 12 New York Times Mini Crossword is “HASTE.” The complete proverb “Haste makes waste,” ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

I also work on Homer and Hesiod, Greek religion and history, archaeological survey, Linear A, and the economy, society and prosopography of the Mycenaean world, and I'm currently writing a second book ...

“In her forepart, she was a lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of ...

If you are a somewhat young Fortnite player and don’t know the tale, here’s a refresher: “Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c.

According to Nikulin, this idea pervades ancient histories. “You can find it all over the place from the Bible to Hecataeus to Hesiod,” he said, “It's all about the genealogies of humans and of the ...

Cyprus, also known as the Isle of Aphrodite (Goddess of Love), is a sunny island at the far eastern edge of the Mediterranean ...

Foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys and tortoises. In Robin Waterfield’s translation of these ancient stories, animals are used to ...