Have you ever heard of the heart-wrenching, questionable morality, and the romantically tragic tales interwoven into Greek mythology? For me, as a young child, I grew up adoring many of these ...

[This story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Netflix’s Sirens.] Perhaps the sirens came calling for director Nicole Kassell. Before signing on to direct the first two episodes of ...

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have ...

When we think of Indian mythology, the first images that often come to mind are grand battles, gods with multiple arms, and vast odysseys. But buried within these ancient myths are stories of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Last year, I published a book entitled, “The Mythology of the Earth: The Lore of Eurasia (Daichi no Shinwa - Yuurashia no Denshou),” (Chuo University Press) which traces the lore of the Earth Goddess ...

(The Conversation) — Female characters in Greek mythology lived under strict patriarchal rules, but they spoke truth to power and resisted injustice. As a scholar of ancient mythology, I’m aware of ...

The thing with Greek mythology is that all those stories were told from a male perspective. So it's very fun to get to go back and consider it from a female lens. And so what I did outside of the ...