In Elektra, Jennifer Saint breathes fresh life into the Trojan War by telling it through the eyes of Elektra, Clytemnestra, and Cassandra. This lyrical retelling lingers not on the battlefield, but on ...

Yet the concept of the lone genius hasn't lost its appeal, said Peter Conrad in The Observer: just look at the veneration ...

Written by Anna Ziegler and directed by Maggie Burrows, 'Janeiad' tells the stories of two women, centuries apart, who each ...

Last year, the New York City Medical Examiner’s office revealed that even after 23 years of research it had yet to find any ...

Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings may reflect ancient Greek mythology, including the story of Clytie and Apollo, symbolising ...

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

Nico Muhly’s Aphrodite reimagines the mythological goddess for the modern age, in a production that is both visually stunning ...

The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

Madeline Miller more or less put mythology books back on the map, and one of her smash hits is 2018's Circe, which went straight to No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list.

From Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing series to the resurgence of Wicked, fantasy books have all but taken over the best-sellers lists as of late. And if you’re one of the readers who’s been gobbling them ...

I try to fight this lamentable tendency,” he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. “Odyssey” is the fourth in his ...