The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity. There were three types of plays – comedies, tragedies (which ...

The Rolls Royce emblem, dubbed the Spirit of Ecstasy, draws heavily from the Nike of Samothrace, a Hellenistic masterpiece ...

Featuring a total of 279 artifacts rooted in ancient Greece, the exhibition The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art ...

Provides a comprehensive framework for the development of pictorial narrative in ancient art, a topic that has been of great scholarly interest in recent years. Through the application of literary ...

In this volume, Carolyn M. Laferrière examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs depicting the gods most frequently shown as musicians to reconstruct how images suggest the sounds of the music the ...