Long ago, the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, cast a spell upon a young woman who had angered her, finally turning her into a myrrh tree. Months later, the trunk of the tree burst open and out ...

Across civilizations, rivers—the Greek Styx, the Chinese River of Oblivion, and the Sumerian Hubur—have always been closely associated with death. Dala Nasser’s exhibition Adonis River, exploring ...

Listen to some of ancient Athens’ greatest writers and philosophers, from Plato to Aristophanes, and you’ll come away thinking that the annual festival of Adonis was an absurd, over-the-top, ...

Adonis, in Greek mythology, was a young human of exceptional beauty, so alluring that he was fought over by Persephone and Aphrodite, and they were goddesses. The reference survives in modern English ...