After Aphrodite promised him the love of the most beautiful mortal woman, Paris carried off Helen to Troy. Thus began the ... according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much ...

“Art of the First Cities ... religious and cultural network that linked the ancient cities of Ur in southern Iraq, Mari in Syria, Troy in western Turkey and the IndusValley city of Mohenjo ...

Homer's Odyssey laid the foundations for modern European literature, so it's a bold claim to say he'd be proud of Christopher Nolan's movie version.

Take one Pompeiian example, set up by the freedman Publius Vesonius Phileros, which opens with ineffable politeness: ...

CC BY 2.0/flickr Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five distinct eras, the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age and Hellenistic Age. By looking at archaeology, art, ...

Statue of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most famous Roman emperors to love ancient Greece and its philosophy ... some verses about the myth of Troy himself. He is often quoted as saying: “Only Greeks ...

And what’s more, the people of ancient Troy knew it too. A new archaeological study has found physical and chemical evidence ...

The 2,200-year-old Ptolemaic Dynasty-era statue was believed to have been looted during World War II from a museum now ...

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

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