Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

As a classicist, I am often asked for Greek and Roman reflections on love for holidays and weddings. I usually admit at the outset that ancient ideas about love rarely match modern expectations. Take, ...

From the mischievous Cupid of Roman art to Plato’s lofty ideas of Platonic love, Greek and Roman literature reveals a complex, often chaotic view of romance. Poets like Ovid and Sulpicia chronicled ...

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

For ancient Romans, many of the gestures now associated with Valentine’s Day would be unfamiliar, if not completely puzzling. Love and desire were not confined to a single day, nor expressed through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The archaeological site of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii is seen, as it reopens to the public with social distancing and ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...