Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
In this narrated review video, an in-depth comparison is made between Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, juxtaposed against the nearly three-millennia-old poetry of Homer. The...
Chlotar (sometimes spelled Lothar) was the youngest of four brothers who jointly ruled over the Frankish Empire after the death of their father, King...
This rather damaged painting, by an unknown 15th-century artist, re-creates a story from the early folkloric history of the ancient kingdom of Rome and...
(Relief of the Charites Aglaea, Thalia and Euphrosyne, from the island Paros, ca. 570–560 BC, via Creative Commons)
In The Iliad, Hephaestus, the smith...
(Loki transformed as a bird, by W.G. Collingwood (1854 - 1932), via Creative Commons)
Troublesome Loki
In most Norse legends, Loki was often the culprit...
