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Greek Mythology

Dear NSA, George Orwell Is Watching You

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.16.2013 | World
Magda Abu-Fadil

It's a month of ironies focused on Net freedom and somebody is benefiting from it - with a great sense of humor to boot. Irony 1: "Dear NSA, you can ...

Angelina Jolie: Goddess, Amazon, Woman

Tracey Cleantis | Posted 05.16.2013 | Celebrity
Tracey Cleantis

Much is made over the material girl's multitudes of metamorphosis. For those of you too young to remember, I speak of Madonna. And, yes, the Divine M...

Hangout and About, Part 4: Delta Rae's Storybook Rise is No Myth

Michael Bialas | Posted 05.16.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Bialas

Delta Rae might sound like the down-home name of a backwoods country singer but it's really just Greek to Brittany Holljes. "I think there are a lot ...

Should God Be Indicted?

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 06.07.2013 | Religion
Janet Tavakoli

My recently published thriller, Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits, is a tale of intrigue about Jesuits who blackmail the pope with secret documents, and...

Aphrodite's Love

Lisa Levart | Posted 06.16.2013 | Arts
Lisa Levart

Aphrodite, who in Greek mythology arose from the foam of the elemental waters, celebrates love and sexuality as an embodied divinity.

Creativity and the Three Graces

Lisa Levart | Posted 05.21.2013 | Arts
Lisa Levart

On a recent, chilly winter afternoon, the three of us met at Grace's magical home. Clay, concrete and painted steel spheres dotted the landscape as though they had rolled down the hill in some prehistoric era, settling in gentle clumps.

Teaching Teens to Challenge the Gods: What We Can All Learn From Classical Mythology (and Percy Jackson)

Pramit Chaudhuri | Posted 12.26.2012 | College
Pramit Chaudhuri

Ask a fifth-grader who the Titans or Giants are and there's a good chance they won't tell you about a football team, but rather about monstrous beings out to overthrow the Olympian gods and destroy the beacon of Western civilization, the United States.

THIS WEEK: How To See 'Celestial Strongman' In Night Sky

Posted 07.25.2012 | Science

By: Joe Rao Published: 07/25/2012 08:37 AM EDT on SPACE.com With the bright moon out of the late evening sky early this week, stargazers will be...

The Greek Crisis As Ancient Myth

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 08.24.2012 | Home

ATHENS, Greece — In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus pushed a boulder up a hill, over and over, forever, in a futile exercise that a few commentat...

Prometheus: Faith Unbound

Pierre Whalon | Posted 08.22.2012 | Religion
Pierre Whalon

What struck me -- besides the quality of the acting, direction, amazing sets, and excellent effects -- was the theme of faith.

Interview With Josephine Angelini, Author of Young Adult Mythology Novel, 'Dreamless'

Lisa Parkin | Posted 08.13.2012 | Books
Lisa Parkin

Along with the rising popularity of dystopian novels in young adult fiction, Greek mythology retellings are finding their way more and more into teen books. Whether it's about Persephone, Medusa or the Furies, no Olympian or ancient myth is safe from YA novelists.

You Already Won the Lottery

Michael Meade, D.H.L. | Posted 07.14.2012 | Home
Michael Meade, D.H.L.

Rich or poor, lucky in life or oppressed by it, we each must eventually accept the lot we were given and play the hand we have been dealt or else be but a pawn in a game where others determine the outcome for us.

Flowing Meditation: Dissolving My Daughter Into Water

Jesse Michael Newman | Posted 05.21.2012 | Arts
Jesse Michael Newman

As the scope of the project grew, I began to recognize Rebirth of Gaea as a unique opportunity to reach my full artistic potential.

Reflections in Athens

Anthony Strano | Posted 03.20.2012 | World
Anthony Strano

Things have really gone astray in Greece. The cradle of civilization has tipped over. The baby has been lost.

It's All Greek to Us: Greek Culture Finally Gets Its Due

Stephanie Vlahakis | Posted 03.04.2012 | Home
Stephanie Vlahakis

Headlines keep telling me how lazy Greeks are today, right? Wrong again. 


WATCH: Sassy Gay Friend Goes Greek

Posted 09.11.2011 | Comedy

Sassy Gay Friend is back, and this time he's coming to the rescue of Odysseus from Homer's "The Odyssey." It seems that the book could have been a who...

Kellesimone Waits Taps Into Her 'Power Animal'

Posted 08.24.2011 | Arts

Kellesimone Waits, daughter of musician and actor Tom Waits, reaches into literature, myth and cultural archetypes in her new show 'What's Your Power ...

Persephone, Hubris, and Climate Change

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.05.2011 | Green
Marcia G. Yerman

No study is complete without connecting the dots between health care costs and smog, which causes respiratory illness, particularly for the youngest and oldest among us.

'Opa!' The Echo of Life!

Alex Pattakos | Posted 08.03.2011 | Healthy Living
Alex Pattakos

This story of Lambros and his son, Andreas, shows us that our lives are simply a reflection of our actions. Life will give us back everything we give to it.

Fall of Spider-Man Director Is Not "Stuff of Greek Drama"

Carla Seaquist | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Carla Seaquist

Everyone connected with this over-hyped, accident-riddled mega-production -- at $65 million, Broadway's most expensive -- needs to take a long, deep breath and, at long last, get a reality check.

Robbie Conal -- Guerilla Godfather: This Artweek.LA (Feb 28-March 6)

Bill Bush | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Bill Bush

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QQ3 With Ruby Sky Stiler

Timothy Hull | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Timothy Hull

Ruby Sky Stiler's current show, Inherited and Borrowed Types, is a chapter title excerpted from A Handbook of Greek Sculpture, a dusty old book she found at a yard sale years ago.

The Rabbi Who Believes In Zeus: Why All Intuitions Of God Are Incomplete

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Rabbi Alan Lurie

No, I don't think that there is a huge bearded guy dressed in a toga sitting in a palace on a mountain in the sky. I believe in Zeus in the same way that Parmenides, Pythagoras and Plato did.

Writing Mythology in an Age of Reality Crisis

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Vamsee Juluri

In an age when the word "reality" has become synonymous with nasty behaviors on TV shows and "truth" seems impossibly divided between political cults, perhaps we could find a better sense of both in what we lightly call "myth."

Get Them to the Greeks

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
George Heymont

Jon Tracy's imagination is so rich and so clearly articulated that he makes Homer's epic understandable to a modern audience that, like the ancient Greeks, has grown tired of constantly being at war.