When we think about animal sacrifice, ancient societies such as the Greeks come to mind. But why did they ritually slaughter animals? What did this do for their society? Jason Statham's ‘A ...

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

The werewolf myth is not a product of modern fiction, but a story going back more than two millennia to Lycaon, the ancient ...