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

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

From Meg's fate to Hercules' parents, Disney's Hercules made several major changes to the mythical Greek hero.

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

Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient sarcophagus depicting a scene familiar to many today: a drinking game.

Hades uses Greek mythology to push its story forward but leaves plenty on the cutting room floor, and Heracles' absence shows untapped potential.

The wreck of a Roman treasure ship that sank near a Greek island more than 2,000 years ago with the famous Antikythera Mechanism on board is giving up new relics.

Glory of Heracles features many familiar references to Ancient Greek characters and locations with a rich storyline inspired by Greek Mythology without explicitly recreating events. The story ...

Greek academics focused their discontent on how Heracles’ less than ideal parents were Disneyfied as the loving marriage between Zeus and Hera, when the powerful boy’s mother was in fact Zeus ...

We recently listened to, and then watched, the story of the 12 trials of Hercules (in Greek: Heracles). The gist of the story is that Hercules serves a cowardly king by completing epic quests to gain ...

The Greek government will soon announce an out-of-court settlement for billions of euros in Swiss franc-denominated mortgages ...

The Olympic Games are underway in Paris, and it’s fair to say that the organizing in France has been lackluster. The Greek men’s water polo team lifted two poorly parked cars out of the way of ...