The Greek word Philoxenia, literally translated as a "friend to a stranger", is widely perceived to be synonymous to ...

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The Cyclopes remain unforgettable characters in Greek mythology, showing how the ancient Greeks used myths to explore the world around them.

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions about the universe ...

What's a one-eyed monster from Greek mythology got to do with tennis? Well, this Cyclops is a system of infra-red beams which is used to help determine whether serves are in or out. With top players ...

Odysseus, Greek hero and the King of Ithaca ... The men started to eat, but the owner of the cave, a giant one-eyed Cyclops called Polyphemus - who’d have guessed that - returned with his ...

Christopher Nolan ‘s next film will be an epic adaptation of one of the greatest stories in history – the ancient Greek poem The Odyssey. One of the oldest works of literature that is still read to ...