Professional historians react to the first scenes of Jason and the Argonauts (1963), comparing the film's portrayal of ancient Greek customs, city-states, and royal power to real historical sources.

The ancient Greeks were masters of creating legends of the sea. In the epic quest, Jason and the Argonauts, a band of heroes aboard the Argo sailed the seas searching for the Golden Fleece that would ...

As the Greek government once again fails to make a breakthrough in its negotiations with the IMF and EU, Barry Norris, founding partner at Argonaut Capital, argues it is time to let Greece go, ...

The Argo is launched, and historians weigh in on ancient shipbuilding, navigation, and the mythology surrounding Greek expeditions. Just how plausible is the legendary voyage, and what were Greek ...

The Argonauts were the group who traveled with Jason on the Argo ship in Greek mythology. The argonaut is also a type of octopus. The ground floor area seats about 70 guests, ...

The 1963 film Jason And The Argonauts, directed by Don Chaffey, with a soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann and featuring the stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen, was my introduction to the myths ...

The ancient Greeks founded Naples in the first millennium BCE. What legends exist about its origin, and what does archaeology ...

The Argonauts of Greek mythology braved sharp rocks, rough seas, magic and monsters to find the fabled Golden Fleece. A new robotics project at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator ...

The fusion of elements from the role-playing and action genres isn't a new one. It's part of the foundation of the ancient Greek epic poetry on which Liquid Entertainment's Rise of the Argonauts ...

The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle had a theory about why female argonaut octopuses have a shell: he suggested that they used it as a boat to float on the ocean surface. New research disproves ...