Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Hear ye, hear ye! There’s a new royal baby, ladies and gents, and King Charles III is “delighted” by the news. Princess ...

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation in 2023 ...

rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek, and therefore were familiar with the Latin names of deities,” Manchester tells Elena Goukassian of the Art Newspaper.

We know the cast of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but not their roles. These are our best guesses at who will play who in ...

Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

In paintings and sculpture, she’s almost always depicted with a ... It’s fitting that Athens (the cultural center of the Greek universe) bears Athena’s name, because she was first and foremost the ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless bronze sculpture to Turkey after the Manhattan D.A. identified it as ...

Greek art shows warriors wearing Corinthian helmets tilted back on the tops of their heads between battles, and the ancient Greek goddess Athena, the patron goddess of Athens, was commonly ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...