Since the first exchanges between India and Greece, the ancient Greeks were fascinated by the stories of India's mysterious gymnosophists.

Vastly more Greek literature survives from the long half-millennium of Roman rule in the Greek-speaking world (between, say, Mummius’ sack of Corinth in 146 B.C. and Alaric’s sack of Rome in A ...

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Lucian and Pliny the Elder told of men who were passionate for the beautiful, undraped statue of Aphrodite at Knidos. It was created by the brilliant sculptor Praxiteles in about 350 BC, the first ...

Summer Elementary Classical Latin and Ancient Greek (Elementary Greek teaches Attic Greek, especially Plato; Intermediate continues Attic Greek (Plato) and expands to Homer and prose authors including ...

Lucian's True History, Illustrated by Willian Strang, J. B. Clark and Aubrey Beardsley. ... (While Latin was the vernacular of ancient Rome, Greek was the language used by the educated elite.) ...

The most ancient examples of an Uncanny Valley response to artificial life occur in Homer’s Odyssey (ca. 700 BC). In the Underworld, Odysseus jumps back in fear when he encounters vivid pictures ...

Saturday's Ultimate Fighting Championship match will look like golf compared to the ancient Greek sport of pankration, which was added to the Olympics in 648 B.C.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was likely stolen from ...

Standing for a little more than 50 years in the third century B.C., Rhodes’s titanic statue of Helios made a colossal impact on Western art, history, and imagination.