Mythology

Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

Douglas J. Penick on Capturing the Essence of South Asian Mythology For a Contemporary Western Audience

 
By Douglas J. Penick  November 8, 2022
Mythology

On the Ancient Mysteries of Linen

By Victoria Finlay  June 16, 2022
Mythology

Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

By Jennifer Saint   May 4, 2022
Mythology

The Mermaid, C’est Moi: Rewriting the Story of a Universal Myth

By Monique Roffey  March 21, 2022
Mythology

Why We Need to Revisit Old Myths to Create New Ones

By Michael Bazzett  January 27, 2022
Mythology

Mythologies and Re-Rememberings: On the Synchronous Moments of Writing a Novel

By Molly Aitken  July 1, 2021
Mythology

The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for Modern Times

By Kathryn Lofton  June 8, 2021
Mythology

Why Are We So Resistant to the Idea of a Modern Myth?

By Philip Ball  June 2, 2021
Mythology

Deep in an Icelandic Archive, the Earliest Roots of Nordic Mythology

By Andri Snær Magnason  March 30, 2021
Mythology

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains

By Ed Douglas  January 7, 2021
Mythology

Fornicating and Fighting: A Brief History of the Ancient Cult of Aphrodite

By Bettany Hughes  September 24, 2020
Mythology

The Monster That Everyone Saw and No One Cared to Talk About

By Colin Dickey  July 21, 2020
Mythology

There Be Dragons. In This Essay.

By Arra Lynn Ross  July 20, 2020
Mythology

Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

By Michael Schmidt  November 21, 2019
Mythology

On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

By Nina MacLaughlin  November 20, 2019
Mythology

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019

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