Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Meaning is a documentary film that delves into the lives of two literary scholars and their perspectives on faith, myth, and imagination. Directed by ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Caravaggio/Public domain. I have long been fascinated by the myth of Echo and Narcissus, and may finally have cracked its meaning. First, let’s remind ourselves of the myth.

Siren enters English through Latin sīrēn, from the Greek Seirēn. In its earliest form, it names the mythic beings themselves. The etymology does not point to beauty or danger so much as compulsion. A ...