This is addressed to Feste, Olivia’s clown in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (4:i), but would not have implied to an Elizabethan audience that Feste really was Greek. At the time Greeks had a reputation for being especially jovial, a...

Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars refer to the myths and study them...

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Comparing its dilemma to a Greek myth, lawyers for the Federal Communications Commission have formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court's rejection of the agency's policy on broadcast profanity.Last June, the 2nd District Court of Appeals in New York nullified the...

House Republicans made it clear Wednesday they won't make things easy for Democrats trying to lay the groundwork for legislation on greenhouse gases and climate change.At the first hearing of a special committee established by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make the case for a bill,...

In the following essay, Meagher examines the depiction of women as both goddesses and humans in Greek mythology, specifically in Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days. Meagher notes the ways in which Hesiod subverts earlier oral traditions, in which women were birth goddesses and creators rather than (as in Olympian myths) created by male gods to bring misery and death to human men.

In the following essay, Lyons argues that archaic texts, including the works of Homer and Hesiod, include a feminine form of the idea of the "hero." Lyons reviews the traditional criteria used to identify heroes in texts, applies the same criteria to heroines, and identifies several heroines that satisfy those qualifications.

In the following excerpt, from an essay originally published in 1949, Kerényi analyzes the nature of "maiden goddesses" and their role and function in Greek mythology. Kerényi describes the Kore, or maiden goddess, as a paradox, in that she represents both mother and maiden, both "begetter and begotten."

Explores the symbolism and meaning of darkness and light in the Greek Myth. References the works Medea, Oedipus the King, Antigone, Hecabe, Electra and Heracles.

An overview of the Greek and Roman gods from mythology.

Greek mythology and Christianity share many similarities in terms of beliefs, traditions, and myths. Both cultures address many of the mysteries of life and the ideas and values of the world with similar explanations, and both share the same ancient origins.