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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 ...
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Were the Ancient Greeks Racist?
Were the Ancient Greeks racist? In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Ancient Civilizations series, we explore primary ...
The Greek Slave casts were carved using a pointing machine, a mechanical device of rods and clamps invented in the eighteenth century. Using this machine, sculptors could accurately transfer, and then ...
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 ...
“The Greek Slave,” a copy of which is housed in the Yale University Art Gallery, was initially created in 1844 by American sculptor Hiram Powers in his studio in Florence, Italy. It shows a captive of ...