A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...
The Friends of the Hiram College Library will present a special spring program, “An Ancient Bronze Statue from Bubon to Cleveland and Back: Research, Repatriation, and Collaboration,” on March 31 at 6 ...
The discus throw event has been included in every modern Olympics since its inaugural 1896 edition held in Athens (where Robert Garrett representing the United States won the gold medal), and can be ...
Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...
Head of an Apoxyomenos (2nd-1st century BCE), Greek bronze (courtesy Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas/Scala, Firenze) (click to enlarge) Curated by Jens Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin, both ...
Modern historians tend to underestimate the role of technical ingenuity in achieving these dazzling ancient artworks ...
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...