It’s refreshing to see how a god or goddess can be made into the image of the human artists, and transgendered by devotion ...

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

From what I know about her, Guanyin is a-OK with my skeptical ways. I don’t believe in Greek, Egyptian or Hindu goddesses either, but I do appreciate the idea of a feminine divine archetype that ...

Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house ...

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In politics, business and war, she embodied ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek ... gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue ...

At first — when she’s seen primarily in a bikini, lounging by crystalline ocean waters — this means capturing the hearts of male suitors, like her namesake siren from Greek mythology.