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Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question
Michael La Corte, University of Tübingen and Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen Imagine waking up to find strangers…
The legend of Troy explained
Helen and Paris depicted on an Ancient Greek vase, 380–370 BC. Wikimedia Commons Marguerite Johnson, The University of…
Greek and Roman nymphs weren’t just sexy nature spirits. They had other important jobs too
Acteon, having accidentally seen the goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing, begins to change into a stag. Metropolitan…