The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful tale in all of Greek mythology, and its influence hasn't faded one bit over the millennia. You’ve likely encountered some ...
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Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?
"The Kasta Tomb is a unique and magnificent Macedonian monument," Mendoni said. "It is the largest burial mound discovered to date in Macedonia, with a diameter exceeding 140 meters, compared to 110 ...
Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad.
The Pythagoras Cup, Greece’s ancient “greedy cup,” offers a playful way to explore Greek wine, Samos, Santorini, history, ...
The rocky hills of Ithaca, home to olive groves and old Greek legends, have now yielded their most evocative secret: the possible sanctuary of Odysseus. At a site known for over two centuries as the ...
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, St. Christopher is sometimes depicted as a man with the head of a dog, a symbol of foreigners ...
The Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd, Russia draws a direct aesthetic lineage from Greek art and the Winged Victory of ...
The exhibition features around 400 items, many displayed on newly designed mannequins based on real people with diverse body shapes and conditions ...
Costume Art opens at the Met Gala with body-positive fashion, new mannequins, and artworks exploring pregnancy, disability, ...
Beyond the Acropolis, I found Japanese fusion, herbal spa treatments, and some friendly stray cats. Sarah Manguso is a freelance writer and author. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The ...