As the island of Patmos continues to evolve, one local designer considers just how much of the past to incorporate into her ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

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

Art by Balambal Suryanarayanan In 2021, Jorge-Rivera Herrans started sharing songs from his unfinished musical, “EPIC: The Musical,” on TikTok. Inspired by Homer’s “Odyssey,” the musical follows ...

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

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

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 ...

The Worcester Art Museum announced Thursday that it has voluntarily agreed to return a pair of antiquities that were likely removed illegally from Italy. The returns are part of a long-term loan ...

And is that really any wonder when she’s named after two trailblazing women? “Athena” is the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, and “Elizabeth” honors the newborn’s great-grandmother, the late Queen ...

ASSEN, Netherlands – A stunning theft has rocked the museum world, with hundreds of priceless Romanian artifacts stolen from the Droner Museum in Assen overnight. Among the missing items is the iconic ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

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.