Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Indeed, a significant barrier to identifying Homer's Troy with the remains of the ancient city of Troy located ... had been ravaged during the classical period. So Hector's revenge is more ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

At Cornell, I’ve come to realize that, by this point in history, to think that anything at all is unprecedented is simply to have not read enough history. There is no question that someone else has ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey ... some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records ...

You might think, given the intervening millennia, that we would already have found most of the world's ancient treasures ... archaeologists revealed a rare mosaic depicting a scene from Homer's epic, ...

Ancient Greek and Latin literature (covering a period from approximately 800 BCE to 500 CE ... you have knowledge of some of the most important and most influential classics (e.g. Homer, Sophocles, ...