The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

Greek mythology’s influence on modern literature and art is undeniable, forming the basis of storytelling, symbolism, and ...

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 ...

The lost, colorful beauty of an iconic set of ancient Greek sculptures has been revealed by a scientific study. The latest research into the Parthenon Sculptures sheds new light on the original ...

On the heels of this summer's Olympic Games in London, the Portland Art Museum has teamed with the British Museum to present "The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece," a collection of more than 130 ...

Although his work is legendary in ancient Greek sculpture, Phidias himself remains fugitive, a blank space whose outlines can be discerned in the copies of his works. "Fragment of the north frieze ...

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a ...

What does it mean to "change art"? Art, in any definition, is so much a business of transformation that change is always and everywhere part of its nature, whether you think of it in physical terms ...

Students should demonstrate advanced knowledge and critical reading by taking SIX comprehensive exams in their final semester. Students may elect to take all SIX exams based on the standard Greek and ...