Source: Wikimedia Commons/Caravaggio/Public domain. I have long been fascinated by the myth of Echo and Narcissus, and may finally have cracked its meaning. First, let’s remind ourselves of the myth.

The goddess Demeter's search for and ultimate reunion with her daughter, Persephone, sends symbolic messages about mothering ...

Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Meaning is a documentary film that delves into the lives of two literary scholars and their perspectives on faith, myth, and imagination. Directed by ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There's a stereotype about the Asian American Pacific Islander community that you might have heard of: the "model minority" myth. It claims the AAPI community is the best minority, ...

Siren enters English through Latin sīrēn, from the Greek Seirēn. In its earliest form, it names the mythic beings themselves. The etymology does not point to beauty or danger so much as compulsion. A ...

Myth, Memory, Meaning showcases the works of four contemporary women artists — Ashu Gupta, Rakhee Shenoy, Smruthi Gargi Eswar, and Sukanya Garg. Much like the artists themselves, each of the works on ...