In the ancient world, birth was not just the beginning of a human life - it was a sacred event believed to be touched by ...

Before kings and empires, there were gods who ruled from the clouds — immortal, powerful, and often dangerously human. On ...

Hypsipyle was the mythical ancient Greek queen of Lemnos who ruled over a matriarchal society after all the men were massacred.

In this trilogy of love stories—Greek myths expertly retold with a feminist slant—McLaren (Waiting for Odysseus) brings to life three heroines, Atalanta, Andromeda and Psyche, and shows how each ...