The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in their masterpieces. According to new research, this also included the sense ...

Greek mythology is a popular history of myths and beliefs from ancient Greece, and they have continued to receive attention, ...

Ancient Athens celebrated the Spring Equinox as one of the most important feasts, a celebration of resurrection following ...

In the midst of the harshness of winter, many can’t help but remember the original myth of Persephone and Hades. However, many romantic retellings villainize or dismiss Demeter’s grief as a mother.

The only surviving funerary relief of the ancient Greek world depicting twin babies in the same arms was unveiled in Athens.

The Sicilian Agathocles, a man not only of obscure but lowly and abject origins, became king of Syracuse. The son of a potter ...

As I write these lines, I feel the warm promise of spring in my heart. However, I don’t think that way because of a date on ...

These fascinating ancient maps can teach us so much about ... the borders surrounding the physical map illustrate numerous Greek gods and goddesses. Among them are Zeus, Persephone, Demeter, and ...

The fascination with ancient Greek goddesses stems from their captivating tales of bravery ... even in the most challenging circumstances. Demeter, the nurturing guardian of the earth’s bounty, ...

The Greek goddess reclining on the ceiba was made by the Japanese master Yuso Yokamoto Nakasawa, as were many others to decorate the roundabout of the Club House, now the “Las Ruinas” restaurant. It ...

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