Rituals are a way of actualizing events that happened at a mythical time, an illud tempus, as mythographer Mircea Eliade puts it. This is why every ...
Sebastian Francisco Maydana
The Second Indochina War, known popularly as the Vietnam War, lasted two decades (1955-1975), and its casualties numbered in the millions. Being a ...
Some of the best stories ever told have reached us in the form of myth. It is only logical, then, that filmmakers turn to classical mythology to look for ...
The Ancient Egyptian civilization is known for its complicated mythology and an array of odd gods and goddesses with strange ...
The ancient Egyptian civilization started its rapid development after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, around 5,000 years ago. It was ruled by ...
Historical accounts and the mass media have built a distinct image of what Vikings were: bearded, muscled men and women clad in leather and fur who drank, ...
Greek mythology is filled to the brim with erotic desire and and sexual misconduct. Zeus, the almighty King of the Gods, cheated on his wife regularly with ...
It can be argued that women achieved greater power in ancient Egypt than in many other ancient cultures and were the equals of men in almost every area of ...
After the Great War, European countries were looking forward to a long period of peace. France and Britain did not want to engage in combat against other ...
Roman mythology is known for its rich stories. Most of the stories of Roman mythology were almost entirely borrowed from the Greek, but there are many local ...
