Greek mythology is generally looked upon as stagnated stories of made up characters and monsters; however, through the words one contemporary author, Madeline Miller, revealed to be a modern phenomenon, not solely classical one. This essay explores works Miller’s Young Adult novels, Song Achilles, Circe, Galatea that reveal unrepresented misunderstood segments mythology, interpreting them empow...

Mentor has roots in Greek mythology. Its current practitioners have lent their own interpretation and meaning by actions. We offer the case studies lived experience of a select group who never met all others. Each asked same questions, they tell story how each found mentor(s), try to be mentors themselves, what impart mentees through vicissitudes professional responsibilities personal lives ove...

For his Second Labor, Heracles was tasked with slaying the Hydra, a serpentine monster from ancient Greek mythology who possessed many heads. When attempted to decapitate monster, two new heads grew in place of each severed head, an expression hopelessness such struggle for anyone but hero. The invulnerability Hydra because its one immortal head. Once head cut off, defeated, and Heracles' secon...

Twins have occupied a prominent place in human imagination and mythology since ancient times. Greek mythology enshrined the twins Castor and Pollux in the heavens as the two stars of the constellation Gemini. Ancient Rome was said to have been founded by twins, Romulus and Remus, raised in the wild by a wolf. The establishment of several North American Indian tribes, such as the Hurons and Iroq...

A number of designations for human body structures derive from classical mythology. These eponyms in the vocabulary of macroscopic anatomy and teratology (e.g., Achilles tendon, Ammon’s horn, cyclopia and sirenomelia) have not been systematically investigated until now. This paper therefore provides an overview of this fringe component of anatomical vocabulary, analyzes the medical history of s...