She is Black, an activist and healer. She says what’s been said online, on the radio, on TV, on the stoop, on street corners, ...

legendary architect Daedalus was inspired to create a labyrinth beside the rolling waves of the Aegean Sea. In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to ...

Ikaria is part of the Southern Sporades and owes its name to a figure from Greek mythology. Icarus is the son of Daedalus and embodies the deeply rooted human desire to transcend possible limits. To ...

Early attempts at human flight date back to ancient times, with legends such as Daedalus and Icarus from Greek mythology. In reality, pioneers like Abbas Ibn Firnas in 9th-century Spain and ...

In Greek mythology, as Icarus took wings from Daedalus, Vegapunk might have taken fire from the Lunarians. And just as Icarus, the risk of destruction looms when that power is mishandled.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a culture that hasn't been influenced by Greek mythology in some way. Those epic tales of gods, heroes, and fantastical beasts have embedded themselves in our collective ...

Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought to life by Aphrodite.

The classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and their travels to the underworld gets a modern retelling in the Lutcher Theater’s latest Broadway musical. Anais Mitchell’s “Hadestown ...

Tolkien was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis. Credit: Віщун, / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 British author J. R. R. Tolkien is beloved worldwide as the father of the literary fantasy ...