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 ...

The book invites you to revel in the world of legends, to dream as you once did as a child.

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 ...

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“Ulysses and the Sirens,” John William Waterhouse, 1891. Credit: Public Domain Greek mythology came to life on canvas through numerous vibrant artworks, many of which have transcended into ...

Nearly 10 months after publication, Butter (Fourth Estate) has made its way to the top of the Official UK Top 50 according to data from Nielsen Bookscan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

Bust of Homer, Roman copy of a Greek original, British Museum. The University of Exeter in the UK has issued a trigger warning to undergraduates studying the great ancient poet’s works. Credit: Public ...

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