The creator of an Attic vase showing the Greek goddess Cassiopeia used gypsum to create the white background, an unusual color for ancient Greek vases, which often had a red background. Credit: ...

Thrasybulus (c. 440–388 BCE) was an important ancient Greek general and politician, particularly known for his role in the restoration of democracy in Athens after the fall of the Athenian Empire in ...

Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout that period, artists worked with a wide ...

This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a ...

Here is an Ancient Greece map, featuring how the country was like in the ancient times, during the peak centuries of its history. In this map of Ancient Greece, you can spot the various regions of the ...

It’s easy to explain the feminist revisionist novels: The past two generations of classical scholarship have focused on re­examining the role of women—both mythic and real—in ancient Greek ...

On May 29th, Twitter user @thetornuproad [8] quoted the meme by saying, "random person who has a crush on me: omg … we could go on picnics … listen to sufjan stevens togetber / me: WHO ARE YOU I AM ...

An analysis of ancient residues left on a vase depicting the Egyptian deity ... fraught with dangers," Branko van Oppen, curator of Greek and Roman art at the Tampa Museum of Art and co-author ...

Hallucinogenic concoction found in 2,200-year-old vase. Vase shows connection to ancient Egyptian rituals. Human bodily fluids suggest ritual consumption.

The suburb of Halandri is also shown. 2 miles Greece GREECE “We have an ancient monument and feat of engineering that we’re bringing into the present to save water and cool the city,” said ...

(J. D.) Beazley Greek vases: lectures by J. D. Beazley. Ed. D. C. Kurtz. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 128, 80 plates. £40.00.