Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...
Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...
A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...
Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...
The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...
The Rhine River, one of Europe’s longest and most picturesque rivers, is famous for its stunning landscape. The steep hi ...
Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.
The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.