mythology

Its scientific name follows the same idea: in Greek mythology the aegis was a protective shield.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Earlier this week, the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were announced in Stockholm, with the latter going to Canadian poet Anne Carson on Thursday for her modern twists on Greek mythology and antiquity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Historian Ashok Mathur says Madari traditions have roots in Indian folklore, mythology and the long history of travelling performers.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Like the boy in Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun, originalists sometimes lose sight of what constitutional text would have meant to ordinary people when those provisions were adopted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There were many of them, but only a few appear in the stories of mythology.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“Wifredo Lam,” organized by MoMA’s Christophe Cherix and Beverly Adams with Damasia Lacroze and Eva Caston, reveals the full scope of Lam’s esoteric fusion of myriad sources, symbols, mythologies and artistic styles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

“The more you look at her work, the more you see personal histories, mythologies, cultures and media, all interwoven into a totality of human experience,” says Michael Govan, chief executive and director of LACMA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

Timothée Chalamet, for example, is hugely popular - but his most recent hits have been Dune and Wonka, which had their own existing fanbases and mythologies.

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

It features more than one hundred objects that, as the exhibition description puts it, “mine the iconographies and mythologies embedded in everyday consumer culture.”

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

And as she read, America’s mythologies began to take on meaning, America’s tribalisms—race, ideology, and region—became clear.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie