Thersites, the Jack Sparrow of the Trojan War was an anti-hero, challenging authority and embodying the tension between ...

Ancient Greek philosopher Chrysippus (279–206 BC) is believed to have died of laughter in a bizarre incident recorded by his ...

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...

Directors such as Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg and a sky full of stars, including Ryan Gosling, Tom Cruise, Matt ...

As we take stock of 2025, here's one metric - the number of women directors dropped this year, at least those with movies in theaters. And as NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, their numbers were not exactly ...

Only 8% of directors with movies in theaters in 2025 were women. That news comes from an annual study from USC Annenberg. It reveals a reversal of trends that were not great to begin with; in 2020, ...

The Greeks proposed the idea that humans are a form of artificial intelligence. Prometheus and Hephaestus use technology to manufacture men and women. As historian Adrienne Mayor reveals in her book ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --Universal Pictures released a new poster for The Odyssey Thursday. The film opens July 17. The poster shows an ancient helmet from behind, with metal and feathers. Christopher Nolan ...

The term "bowdlerization," meaning censorship, originated from efforts to rewrite works like Shakespeare's plays for "family reading." Throughout history, men have worn what is now considered drag in ...

Much of the early press for Supergirl, the next DCU movie, has credited its source material. Indeed, the film was originally going to use the same title as the graphic novel that inspired it; ...