New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Starting with the beginning, Mythos takes the reader through the creation of the world, as told by the Greeks and then ...

During excavations, two marble heads, believed to belong to Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and love) and Eros (god of love), were ... Verres later pillages its art treasures. The city boasts the ...

The Wadsworth Atheneum is a cultural gem. Established in 1842, it’s the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the U.S. and boasts a revered, encyclopedic collection. Its pedigree ...

The fox yokai stems from Japanese folklore yet her lunar designation connects her to both Selene, the Greek moon goddess ... gods. The World Government’s seat atop the Red Line mirrors Mount ...

An ancient Greek myth has Momus born spontaneously from Nyx (Νύχτα—night in Greek), the goddess and personification of the ... where he was both a showman and a cautious voice. He kept gods in line ...

The most significant period in the history of the ancient citadel of Perperikon is in line with the Thracian and Greek cultural ... This was a crucial element in the worship of Dionysus, the ancient ...