Harpies are bird-like messengers of Zeus, sent by the Olympian ruler to punish humans for their crimes. They embody sudden ...

Did you know there's an art form that blends Ancient Greek and Buddhist traditions? Welcome to Greco-Buddhist art, aka ...

The most telling syllables in the exhibition’s title are the two in “-istic”. I’m old enough to remember when they were meant to be pejorative: The Hellenes were what the ancient Greeks called ...

I rarely paid attention to images or pictures. My focus was always the written word. My mind built the gods, heroes, and material artifacts, including temples and the Parthenon. I had to do that ...

As the Indo Greek world collapsed, its cultural impact only grew stronger. Greek merchants, artists, and ideas reshaped ...

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The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

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 ...

After a touring exhibition of antiquities from the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Fla., raised concerns at a Denver museum, a curator was dismissed. By Graham Bowley The Museum of Fine Arts in ...