Hypsipyle was the mythical ancient Greek queen of Lemnos who ruled over a matriarchal society after all the men were massacred.

Hyrox's CEO said the competition was designed such that people with regular levels of fitness did not have to compete with "Greek statues." ...

The epic clash between Achilles and Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, was a battle of titans that would determine the fate of Troy.

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...

Five new suspects have been arrested for their involvement in the brazen robbery of €88 million worth of French crown ...

The rise of the ‘manosphere’ and ‘tradwives’ has skewed the internet’s idea of what it means to be a woman and how they ...

In 1991 he altered his teenage army portrait, substituted ornamental Ukrainian embroidery for Soviet insignia, rouged up his ...

Björn Andrésen, who has died aged 70, was an actor who shot to fame as Tadzio, the Polish teenager whose beauty casts a spell ...

In adapting the classic, late 19th Century Henrik Ibsen play for the screen, filmmaker Nia DaCosta ( Candyman, The Marvels) ...

While sporting competitions are held up as great and virtuous unifiers, the reality – from as far back as the ancient Greeks ...

While sporting competitions are held up as great and virtuous unifiers, the reality – from as far back as the ancient Greeks – is that corruption and politicisation are always lurking nearby.