Men Have Feared Women for Millennia. Just Look at the Monsters of Greek Mythology A new collection of essays considers how the villainous women of classical antiquity, from Medusa to the Sphinx ...

Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index Marine View, after Claude Lorraine. The Landing of Aeneas in Italy, or the Allegoric Morning of the Roman Empire, (graphics) Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue ...

The series retraces the journey in Homer’s The Odyssey, exploring the story, myth, history, culture, and food along the way. Voyaging by sea, she's on the hunt for the truth behind Greek myths ...

"Greek Island Odyssey" begins Monday night at 8 p.m. EST/PST on the Smithsonian Channel. Hughes went on this journey in order to find kernels of truth behind these grand Greek myths and legends.

The Amazon Women: Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth? Strong and brave, the Amazons were a force to be reckoned with in Greek mythology—but did the fierce female warriors really exist?

As Gregory Nagy, a scholar of Greek literature at Harvard University, tells Smithsonian, the root of the word “automaton” is mat, which shares “a common origin with words like the Latin mens ...

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum The Muses (or Heavenly Nine), (painting) Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Pool with Four Bronze Figures), (sculpture) ...