Theseus and Pirithous fight a centaur attempting   to steal a bride from a wedding party Thousands of years before there were ...

Sir Arthur Evans (far left) Sir Arthur John Evans was an English archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the ...

PASIPHAE was an immortal daughter of the sun-god Helios. She was the mother of "starlike" Asterion, called by the Greeks the Minot...

Queen Pasiphae seated on a throne attended by a maiden and old Trophos (her nurse?) receives the wooden cow from the artisan Daidalos. Eros,...

The creature had the head and tail of a bull on the body of a man. Before he ascended the throne of Crete, Minos struggled with his ...

 Maximinus I: The Giant Who Ruled Rome, 235-238 AD Ancient Rome was a turbulent place, and a variety of Emperors attempted to consolidat...

As the story goes Ariadne's father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made as part of reparations; however, she wo...

According to Plato (4th century BC), who relied on much earlier Egyptian accounts, Atlantis was a thriving, powerful island civilization...

Asclepius may have been a real person who lived sometime before 1200 BCE. Due to his great deeds, he was elevated to the rank of the deit...

Asclepius  was the ancient Greek god of medicine. He was one among a family pantheon of healers. His father, Apollo, was a healing god and h...