Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could ...

When two British explorers excavated the remnants of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in 1861, many tombs had already been ...

According to ancient writers and Greek mythology, the muses are the sources of inspiration for the arts and knowledge.

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated question: What is ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad.

Artists and storytellers tend to seek out inspiration, frequently latching on to a person or idea as their muse. But who were ...

Tara is an important bodhisattva, i.e. someone on the path towards Buddhahood, in Buddhism, especially in Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism). Tara is considered to be a female figure and there are various ...

A conversation with Dr. Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College, Emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture As audiences prepare for the release of The Odyssey, an ...

The indomitable Lady Columbia defends the United States with her snazzy patriotic shield, c. 1890. Library of Congress The first and longest-ruling mascot of the United States made her debut before ...

There are many powerful deities in the Greek pantheon. From Zeus, the king of the gods, to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, the people of ancient Greece worshipped these immortal beings for millennia, ...