Gladiator II is now in cinemas, and Ridley Scott’s epic, a sequel to his 2000 Oscar winner, has yielded much comment about its homoeroticism. Certainly there is a strong sense of feminisation. Take ...
In Greek mythology, the Titan ruler Kronos fears ... According to that legend, at least. Ancient Romans had their own origin story involving Hercules. In Book 9 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the ...
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering events between 1200 and 760BC. This period has traditionally been viewed ...
As the newly released trailer for The Return shows, Ralph Fiennes' version of Odysseus could almost be considered the Ancient Greece equivalent of John Wick (Keanu Reeves). The new trailer sees an ...
Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the ... according to the study. While the Greeks, Etruscans and Samnites attempted to conquer it, Pompeii became a Roman colony, the study authors noted.
Two sisters are caught in an eternal embrace. The poignant figures, frozen in time, humanize an ancient natural disaster. But a provocative new study published Thursday in Current Biology reveals ...
Read about the others here. In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with gloved hands, she explained how 3,500 years ago, a ...
Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...
Photo from ÖAW / ÖAI On a hilltop in Greece, archaeologists uncovered a huge set of ruins. The ancient complex — which turned mythology into history — is still revealing its secrets.
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