A sacred shrine dedicated to Hercules containing bronze statues depicting the ancient Greek hero has been discovered by ...
Male beauty and strength were highly valued by ancient Greeks, and they were celebrated at a special beauty pageant known as ...
A Los Angeles museum faces pressure to return an ancient work of art to Italy. Italian courts said the J. Paul Getty Museum should send back a bronze statue known as Victorious Youth, showing a very ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...