Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn't just have to be wives to make a difference
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...
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Seven English Expressions You Didn’t Know Were Greek
Many popular expressions that are used pretty often in English have deep roots in the rich Greek language, culture, and ...
Rare life-sized statues of toga-clad couple found in Pompeii tomb
Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
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The Ancient Roman Emperors Who Loved Greece
Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
In Ancient Greece and Rome, who were the harpies, and why did they stink so much?
Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...
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A New God Of War Game Set In Greece Is Apparently Coming This Year
According to industry insider and Giant Bomb host, Jeff Grubb, PlayStation’s plans might include a brand new God of War title set in Greece, contrary to persistent rumours of a remastered collection ...
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Kirsty Coventry becomes first woman and first African to lead IOC
PYLOS, Greece–Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organization’s first female and first African president in its 130 ...
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Archaeologists Discovered a 1,700-Year-Old Statue of Hercules—Without His Head
Greek God Statue Found Buried in Roman Sewer In addition to the two beasts included on the statue, other labors included retrieving a golden apple from the edge of the world, capturing the multi ...
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Door Dasher steals Overland Park woman’s sentimental statue from porch
Video shows he took a statue from an Overland Park woman’s home. The statue means more to her than it’s worth. Kansas Rep. Davids visits restaurant, talks efforts to lower egg prices The ...
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Greek woman who killed her 3 daughters gets 3 life terms
A Greek woman sentenced to life last year for murdering her nine-year-old daughter received two additional life terms on Tuesday for killing her two other children. The court in Athens found that ...