Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Hear ye, hear ye! There’s a new royal baby, ladies and gents, and King Charles III is “delighted” by the news. Princess ...

rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek, and therefore were familiar with the Latin names of deities,” Manchester tells Elena Goukassian of the Art Newspaper.

We know the cast of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but not their roles. These are our best guesses at who will play who in ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was ... able to study the statue of Athena closely and interpret it from many perspectives, including those of art history, restoration ...

Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless bronze sculpture to Turkey after the Manhattan D.A. identified it as ...

He entertained Olympus with his lyre, taught humankind the art of medicine, and had no rival in archery ... It’s fitting that Athens (the cultural center of the Greek universe) bears Athena’s name, ...

Greek art shows warriors wearing Corinthian helmets tilted back on the tops of their heads between battles, and the ancient Greek goddess Athena, the patron goddess of Athens, was commonly ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...