In response, God instructed Moses to make a serpent out of bronze and mount it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten could look at the bronze serpent and would be healed. "The brazen serpent", with ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...