"Sour and haunting and hope-dwindling. Zeus prevails, unpunished and divine, abandoning Leda as collateral damage of a desire that is inherently violent." Amelia Higgs contemplates Michelangelo's ...

The samurai are one of the most iconic symbols of Japan to be transported into Western popular media. Celebrated in films, TV shows, books, toys, video games and many more forms of media; the noble ...

"I can’t help but desire a resurgence of our mythology and folktales..." Clara Kearney explores the mythological heritage of Ireland.

Authors and books such as Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (2018), Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018), and Natalie Haynes’ A Thousand Ships (2019) are just a few of the innumerable examples of ...

F1 drivers have a strange relationship with the media. In the past ten years, social media has increased in importance and turned the sport on its head, with Thursday “media days” being almost as ...

Nigel Farage is facing criticism over several asylum seekers being accepted into the Reform Party in recent weeks. Many have fled due to their views and rebellious actions leading them being ...

If you walk down the aisles of the supermarket today, there often seems to be your favourite food, but better. Protein pancakes, collagen smoothies, prebiotic lemonades. This influx appears driven by ...

"Japanese folklore is teeming with transient beings that lurk in the shadows" — Indya Burke delves into the continued cultural relevance of the Yōkai.

"The pomegranate has held symbolic meanings as numerous as its seeds." Stella Fenwick discusses different myths behind the pomegranate fruit.

"Mythology functioned as a timeless framework for the artists to challenge Victorian artistic conventions and examine contemporary values." Cadence Whawell explores Pre-Raphaelite depictions of ...

By. The history of theatre is in a lot of ways a history of ritual. They are practices equally bound by their devotion to performance, community, and transformation; ...

Does Vega’s melody trick the listener into forgiving Calypso for her crimes?' Emilia Edwards explores whether all female characters in mythology should be given a feminist re-telling.