The Art of Myth

Oedipus Rex is a figure of Greek mythology from at least the 5th century B.C. Greek playwright Sophocles first introduced us to this character in his …

The main source for the story of Antigone is the homonymous tragedy by Sophocles, one of the three famous Greek playwrights, the other two being …

With the city of Troy lying in ruin, the Greeks took to their ships, heading home. Odysseus, the craftiest of the Greeks, who had the favor of Athena …

The marriage of Peleus, grandson of Zeus, to Thetis, daughter of the sea-god Nereus, was a major event on Mount Olympus. The happy couple invited …

After ten years of bloody warfare outside the walls of Troy, the Greeks finally put their ships to sea. They left behind only a large wooden horse …