But we can find Achilles Tatius, for example, where he says, "As a race, slaves are utter cowards". Look, it seems like we can't ignore this ugly side of ancient Greek history. How ready everyone ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Ancient Civilizations series, we explore primary sources to understand how Greeks ...

Inscriptions inside the Great Pyramid of Giza have been discovered to reveal new details about how the ancient wonder was ...

This plaster cast is as close as we can get to Powers' "original" Greek Slave. It was made in the artist's studio directly from Powers' clay model and records the date "March 12, 1843," when the ...

Greek Slave became the most famous sculpture of the nineteenth century and propelled the artist, Hiram Powers (1805-73), to international stardom. The work was so provocatively lifelike that certain ...

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Whether we cross oceans or tread through minefields of painful secrets, God holds us safely in his hands. If we veer off ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is set to be a star-studded retelling of Homer's epic poem, and we're here to keep track of ...

By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.