If Homer had told the tale of Troy in a linear way, the following passage might have been very near the opening of his poem. It's the ...

Among the curious features of Ovid's story of Meleager, Atalanta, and the Calydonian Boar Hunt: The large assembly of mythological he...

The descendents of Tantalos via Pelops lead directly to Homeric epic and Greek tragedy. Here's how Homer traces the line of Pelops thro...

felicissima matrum dicta foret Niobe , si non sibi visa fuisset . Niobe would have been spoken of as the most fortunate of mothers, i...