Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs ... Scientists uncovered over a dozen female wasps preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from the Kachin region in northern Myanmar.

Eggs and flowers are rather obvious symbols of female fertility ... Caesar would likely have known that in the Classical Greek tradition, hares were sacred to Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

Now, as Le Guin herself acknowledged, “The Aeneid” is not real history: It’s a Roman’s politicized retelling of an ancient Greek mythical ... her brother’s name and changes the fate ...

It is the organ responsible for female orgasms ... becoming aroused and swollen. The name “clitoris” comes from the Ancient Greek word “kleitoris,” meaning “little hill,” and may ...

Set against the stunning ancient beauty of the Greek Isles, Satisfaction offers a uniquely female and sapphic take ... charm that won over Call Me by Your Name audiences. With brilliantly ...

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure ... creature Sirenobethylus charybdis—both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical ...

Back in 5th-century Alexandria, Hypatia stood as a symbol of knowledge. She is the earliest-known female philosopher and mathematician who challenged rising religious extremism. Her intellect and ...

Paleontologists have discovered a disturbing new species of ancient wasp that restrained ... after the seawater-swallowing monster from Greek mythology, may represent a whole new family of insects.