The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for your new baby.

The Friday, October 13th session is titled Modernism, Art Glass, Folk Art & Jewish Art and contains 428 lots. The Saturday, October 14th session is titled European, American & Asian Art & Antiques and ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

With Kratos' next journey uncertain, choosing to keep him in the Norse realm for the next God of War series entry could be a ...

The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open letter supporting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). Indeed, all who desire to live godly in ...

Worshipped across wide expanses of Slavic Europe and even beyond (as Perkunas he also appears in Baltic mythology), Perun is the reigning lord of the heavens, and the god of lightning and thunder. As ...

People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds.

WHAT DOES MYTHOLOGY SAY? The Mahakumbh Mela finds its origins in the ancient Hindu legend of "Samudra Manthan," or the churning of the cosmic ocean. According to mythology, gods and demons worked ...

The newly appointed Consul General of Greece in Melbourne, Ms. Dimitra Georgantzioglou, met with the President of the Greek Community of Melbourne, Mr. Bill Papastergiadis OAM, to discuss ...