Mythology

But to understand what Medea did, you must first understand who she was and what they did to her. Because this story doesn't start with a woman who goes crazy for no apparent reason.

First, he got Polyphemus drunk on concentrated wine he had brought with him, filling the cup generously and refilling it several times. When the giant, in his drunkenness, asked his name so he could reward him with a gift, Odysseus answered...

An arrow to the heel, shot by the man who started it all and guided by a god carrying a grudge. That was how Achilles died. Then came the horse, the night, and the fall of Troy. Then Homer: the poet who turned fifty days of that war into the most widel...

The first word of the Iliad is not glory or war — it is wrath. Achilles' rage was not just wounded pride; it was the force that left the Greeks exposed, burned their ships, and killed the person who mattered most to him. All over a dispute about spoils...

Paris chose Aphrodite. He didn't choose power.

Why? Because his wife Eriphyle had been bribed by Polynices with the Necklace of Harmonia, a legendary piece of jewelry with a particularly dark history.

What the oracle told Laius was this: your own son will kill you. And after killing you, he will marry your wife — his own mother.

The night that cost the god of death the most was not any of the nights when wars were declared or cities fell. It was the night a musician stood before him, started to play, and Hades realized he had no way to ask him to leave. The guards who normally...

Orpheus was the greatest musician the ancient world could imagine — when he played, trees uprooted themselves and walked closer to hear him. But all that ability would be put to the most human test imaginable when he lost the person he loved and decide...