The Short Version: Oedipus’ ancestor Semele becomes the mother of the god Dionysus at the cost of her own life in an event that forever...

The Short Version: The first male heir to the Theban throne after Cadmus is turned into a deer and torn apart by his own hounds on the...

This story doesn’t start in Thebes. Instead, we begin our story in Phoenicia, a sizeable stretch of the Mediterranean away from what...