Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...