Medusa” is showing at the Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach through Saturday. Core Theatre adapted and wrote ...

Retellings and reimaginings are having a moment in the publishing industry as readers can’t seem to get enough of them.

In her fascinating history of old age, Winter Dreams, Barbara H Rosenwein extracts lessons on ageing from Sophocles to Jenny ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

According to the historical and linguistic evidence, was Homer really more ancient than Hesiod, or did Hesiod actually come before Homer?

The lecture examines the figure of Chaos at the beginning of the cosmogony in the Theogony and considers the meaning that Hesiod may have plausibly been thought likely to have assigned to it there, ...

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek mythology." ...

Famously mentioned in Hesiod’s Theogony in the 8th century B.C.E., Nyx is one of the oldest deities in Greek mythology. The primordial goddess of the night, Nyx gave birth to numerous offspring, who ...

The ancient Greeks named the world’s first created woman not Eve but kalon kakon—“the beautiful-evil thing,” in the words of the poet Hesiod. He came from Cyme, in modern-day Turkey, and ...

Plates 1-4, 6-20 represent passages from Hesiod's Works and Days; plates 5, 21-37, passages from his Theogony. All are captioned with a quotation from Elton's English translation, and usually with a ...

There’s some irony in young workers being called lazy and entitled by baby boomers, who themselves were criticized as ...

Foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys and tortoises. In Robin Waterfield’s translation of these ancient stories, animals are used to ...