Greek mythology
What ancient Greek stories of humans transformed into plants can teach us about fragility and resilience
By Marie-Claire Beaulieu — October 9, 2023
(The Conversation) — Stories in Greek mythology on the cycle of nature showing youth, death and rejuvenation can have lessons for us today on how grief changes over time and transforms who we are as people.
What Greek mythology teaches us about women’s resistance and rebellion
By Marie-Claire Beaulieu — May 26, 2023
(The Conversation) — Female characters in Greek mythology lived under strict patriarchal rules, but they spoke truth to power and resisted injustice.
Who is Artemis? NASA’s latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon
By Marie-Claire Beaulieu — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — A scholar of Greek mythology explains the naming of NASA’s missions after mythological figures and why the name Artemis is indicative of a more diverse era of space exploration.
Tallying the dead is one thing, giving them names would take an ‘inexhaustible voice,’ as the ancient Greeks knew
By Joel Christensen — June 7, 2022
(The Conversation) — A scholar of Greek classics revisits the texts to bring lessons on how to honor the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why the Christian idea of hell no longer persuades people to care for the poor
By Meghan Henning — October 25, 2018
(The Conversation) — The idea of an afterlife as a moral tool goes back to the Greeks, but in present times, the concept of eternal perdition has radically changed.
Spiritual seekers reconstruct ancient Greek polytheism
By Juliet Muir — March 7, 2017
LOS ANGELES (RNS) The neopagan movement stems from ancient Greek mythology that centers on religion, philosophy and tradition.
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