Beehive Books is transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic retellings of Greek mythology through fifteen original paintings ...

Aletes was Hercules’ descendant who seized the ancient Greek city of Corinth. His name evolved into a modern term for "outlaw ...

How did the Greeks explain the fact that their gods no longer interacted much with humans during the historical era?

Updated by Timothy Blake Donohoo on May 28, 2025: There are several differences between the Disney Hercules movie and the actual Greek myth, with these being apparent in the character's very name ...

Don’t expect ancient in Disney’s “Hercules.” Forget your tattered copy of Bulfinch’s mythology. Disney’s 35th animated motion picture has more to do with Nike th… ...

Disney's "Hercules" (1997) is a beloved animated retelling of the classic Greek myth, but even die-hard fans may not have caught all these hidden gems. The film is full of references to Greek ...

Scientists and divers made the new discoveries after creating the first phases of a precise digital 3D model of the shipwreck, which sank near Antikythera, a Greek island in the southern Aegean ...

Legendary Dutch coach Rinus Michels once aptly summed up what he thought the beautiful game was about: "Football is war." Shots are fired, the opposing teams goal is besieged, the forwards must ...

To ensure that Greek viewers were aware that Disney’s “Hercules” was a loose interpretation of the sacred myth and not a historically accurate endeavor, the film was retitled “Beyond the ...