Warnings about artificial intelligence often sound apocalyptic, yet the basic fears are as old as written stories about ...

IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY Prometheus, a Titan, stole fire from Mount Olympus to give to humans, whom he created. That did not go down well with Zeus, king of the gods. He sentenced Prometheus to the daily ...

Greek mythology is full of artifacts endowed with supernatural powers, in addition to a myriad of unforgettable gods, ...

Zeus had the ungodly notion of making men miserable with his ploy of an artificial woman with a Jar (Pithos) full of poisons. Zeus asked the metallurgist god Hephaistos to engineer the first woman in ...

Fremantle has launched “Pandora’s Box,” a brand-new strategic reality competition that transforms a timeless myth into high-stakes gameplay. The format, which was created by the RTL Creative Unit in ...

When San Francisco Ballet’s new Artistic Director Tamara Rojo first approached Aszure Barton about revisiting the myths of Prometheus and Pandora, the choreographer wasn’t exactly sold. “I had to ...

“No myth is more familiar and no myth more misunderstood,” writes classicist Harrison (The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1900). “The box of Pandora is proverbial and that is the more remarkable as she ...

In the world debut of “Mere Mortals,” SF Ballet seeks to explore the ethical implications of artificial intelligence, weaving in an electronic score and high-tech lights and visuals. Even so, the ...

Odilon Redon's "Pandora," ca., 1914. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Here Pandora, often considered like Eve, the first woman, is found in a Garden of Eden setting. Source: Public Domain, ...