Metamorphoses premiered Friday night at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, featuring vignettes of classic ancient ...

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 ...

Greek Hoplites were heavy infantry soldiers, citizen-soldiers who equipped themselves when called to fight for the poleis or city-state.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On May 29th, Twitter user @thetornuproad [8] quoted the meme by saying, "random person who has a crush on me: omg … we could go on picnics … listen to sufjan stevens togetber / me: WHO ARE YOU I AM ...

Featuring a total of 279 artifacts rooted in ancient Greece, the exhibition The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art opened in Beijing on Tuesday. The Greek show in China seems a perfect ...

Ancient immune defense system plays an unexpected role in cancer Date: November 5, 2024 Source: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Summary: Along with defending against pathogens, the body's ...

the Henry Moore Foundation has recently engaged in international loan exhibitions that examine the artist’s legacy and his global reception through the prisms of Ancient Greece and a fellow 20th ...