Maddie Morris, the artist behind the exhibition, was inspired by James Herbert Draper's painting of Ulysses and the Sirens, ...

Long before fairy tales and period dramas, there was the original love story: Cupid and Psyche. It had everything — love at ...

Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

The Worcester Art Museum announced Thursday that it has voluntarily agreed to return a pair of antiquities that were likely removed illegally from Italy. The returns are part of a long-term loan ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, ...

And people may feel shy about bringing up certain issues with their doctors, she said, which can allow old gut health myths to persist and new sources of misinformation to spread. We asked 10 ...