Narcissists aren't called narcissists for no reason. Coming from an ancient Greek myth, the word narcissist is derived from Narcissus, a man who fell in love with his own reflection. So ...

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a relatively rare personality disorder, but it's entered the cultural zeitgeist as a catch-all term for self-absorbed, manipulative behavior. So, it's no ...

The old adage "there's no such thing as bad publicity" seems to apply perfectly to narcissistic men, who in a series of studies were found to be strikingly open to being trash-talked. As PsyPost ...

Why the actor was the only person who could don the tight leather pants and unironic pretension of the over-the-top Doors ...

Narcissistic abuse is also another important for of manipulation that is emotionally draining. It happens when someone with an exaggerated sense of self-importance, little to no empathy ...

Culkin went on to call Kit “narcissistic” and “abusive,” sharing how he “wanted nothing to do with my f–king father” during his parents’ custody battle in the 1990s. “He was just ...