But a lot of that mythology was taken from Greek and Roman statues, where you have these ... It's like a Charles Atlas body. Big shoulders, barrel chest, thick waist, thinner legs.

The path starts at the visitors center, where it passes Bill Worrell’s Maker of Peace sculpture­—a three ... stories in their ancestral home, the mythology and the symbolism felt new.

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, ...

have unearthed an incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also ...

An incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus, along with statue fragments of other ancient Greek deities have been unearthed in Turkey.

Cicero for example spoke of a ritual treatment of a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest and animals in Greek mythology, in the Sicilian city of Segesta which was anointed with ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. What she has illustrated – as well as ...

"We draw inspiration from the Greek god Atlas, known for his unwavering strength and his legendary ability to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders," the company states on its website.

The central feature are two figures representing contemporary versions of Atlas, the titan who held up the world in Greek mythology. One faces left, toward a group of people praying in front of an ...

Marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo from the 2nd century AD. Credit: Reuters. For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of ...

Profile of the statue of Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo) at the Louvre Museum. Credit: Bradley Weber / Flickr CC BY 2.0 She embodies the universal concepts of beauty, sexual love, and fertility, ...