A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Queen Teuta of Illyria held an audience with two Roman ambassadors. When one of them disrespected her, she had the envoy ...

With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...

Well, in many cultures, that’s precisely what a patron god or goddess does. These divine figures are not just distant, mythological characters; they play an active, guiding role in the lives of their ...

Athena The Goddess of War 2015 launches viewers into a universe filled with Gods and Goddesses Humans and betrayals love and redemption When Zeus learns of a plan by Hades to enslave mankind and ...

OK, it would have to be a pretty big room because some of these characters transcend literal space and time, but still, their ...

In addition to the 1,800-year-old piece of engraved jewelry, archaeologists discovered a trove of Carolingian coins, medieval pottery and more ...

They’re short enough that they can be one syllable, but long enough that they can have as many as three syllables.

Asha Bhosle wowed audiences at recent concert in Dubai when she sang Tauba Tauba and even tried the signature hook step.

In India, kings sat on lion thrones (simha-asana), and Durga, the patron goddess of royal households ... and the goddesses of love and war Ishtar riding atop them. Asherah, the wife of Yahweh ...