Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Harvard University Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy weighs in on how Christopher Nolan ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

Among the recovered works at the Troy Museum are two dozen pieces of gold jewellery from the Penn Museum in Philadelphia that were initially taken by the German merchant Heinrich Schliemann in 1871.

For example, the 2004 blockbuster, Troy, is an excellent starting point for anyone who wants to learn more before watching the new Nolan picture. Indeed, the director may have eschewed doing an ...

Work on the excavation stopped because World War II broke out. Blegen returned to the Palace of Nestor in 1952 and a more thorough excavation resumed. He retired in 1957.

FOR CHARLES STOCKING, long hours at the desk are part of the job. As a scholar of ancient Greek and a university professor, he spends many hours sitting almost every day. And all his desk work ...

THE BALANCE OF muscular tension that Stocking strives for is an ancient paragon—a central concept of the only book about athletic training that survived antiquity, the Gymnasticus, written by ...

A new archaeological discovery in Pompeii has unveiled a bath complex inside a private domus, accompanied by a banquet hall. This find stands as a clear example of how Roman architecture not only ...