Those familiar with Greek mythology know the story of Icarus ... and they’d be soaked by the sea. We all know what happened next. Overcome by enthusiasm for flight, Icarus arced higher and ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

Python was the child of Gaia and grew to become the guardian of the Delphic oracle, one of the most important spiritual places of the Ancient Greek world. The most famous myth about Python ...

There are dozens more sites around the globe where visitors can get close to the man ... Myths and as yet unproven theories also link him to other sites across the northern hemisphere. The ancient ...

I think of Greek mythology’s Icarus, who on escape from prison ignored his old man Daedalus’ advice, flew too close to the sun on waxed wings, plunged into the sea and drowned. That’s hardly ...

The city of Thônis-Heracleion was once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean Sea, controlling trade for centuries before ...

Homer is the attributed author of two ancient Greek poems that ... his crew fight against a man-eating cyclops, powerful giants, and sirens. They defeat witches and sea monsters, and anger the ...

A wine lover’s journey along Turkey’s ancient Aegean coast ... a peak associated with Greek mythology. Enjoying a chocolaty, figgy Shiraz and an entrecôte, I felt like a modern-day Dionysus.

With “Parthenope,” which borrows its name from one of the sirens of Greek myth, Sorrentino is ... might have been to give birth to a sea creature from ancient Greece during the summer of ...

The shrine attracted global attention in 2016 when restorers uncovered remnants of an ancient tomb behind ... think the real Jesus—the man who inspired the myth—hides below the surface of ...

Archaeologists are uncovering new insights into the origins of ancient Greece on the tiny island of Dhaskalio, situated in the Aegean Sea, 125 miles southeast ... which later contributed to the myth ...

where the small blue dome merges with the surrounding sea. Naxos stands out for its genuine natural monuments over 600 years old. Walking here is like immersing yourself in a millennia-old history ...