Aeon-Uranus, Gaea, Carpi, Horae and Prometheus / Greco-Roman mosaic, Damascus Museum The ancient Greeks had several different...
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AÂ “prothesis” scene, the lying-in-state of the deceased on a bed, surrounded by his family members, some of...
Image from an illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Greek fire in use against the fleet of the rebel Thomas the...
Papyrus Bodmer VIII / Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Wikimedia Commons What did books look like in antiquity? In...
Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower equipped with a boarding bridge against...
Add MS 34654 / British Library The development of printing in the 15th century signaled huge changes...
OIympian Columns A fascinating group of manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries preserve a range of...
M0004635 Fragment of bas-relief in the from of a temple / Wellcome Library Ancient Greek philosophy and...
A detail of the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian acropolis. The building was constructed between 421 to...
White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece The Ottoman Empire captured Thessaloniki in 1430 and ruled it until 1912. ...
Olive trees on the Greek island of Anaxos. Cereals / Wikimedia Commons The prosperity of the majority...
Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
Achilles at the Court of King Lycomedes.  The sarcophagus had been sawed up to four plates which were...
A model of the agora of Athens at its maximum extension during the 2nd century CE. (Agora Museum, Athens) / Photo...
A map of the political structure of Greece in the Archaic Age (ca. 750 – 490 BC). / Photo...
Pitcher (Oinochoe) in the Form of the Head of an African, about 510 B.C., attributed to Class...
Mosaic Icon with the Virgin and Child, late 1200s, made in Constantinople. Glass and gold tesserae on...
Mosaic Floor with Achilles and Briseis, A.D. 100s, Roman. 85 7/16 x 89 3/8 in. The J....
Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece / Wikimedia Commons Looking at the ruins as...
In a world where few believed in an afterlife, this-worldly glory mattered immensely. Shutterstock When fame and glory are at...
The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west / Wikimedia Commons The most...
A fragment of a wall painting showing two lovers in bed from the House of L Caecilius...
A painting depicting a debate between Socrates and Aspasia, by Nicolas André Monsiaux, circa 1800. Wikimedia Commons In Athenian...
Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ‘The Creation of Man’ on the vault...
10th century CE Greek copy of Aristarchus of Samos’s calculations of the relative sizes of the sun, moon and the...
Detail, Phidias(?), Parthenon Frieze, c. 438-32 B.C.E., pentelic marble (420 linear feet of the 525 that complete...
The Achaean League was a Hellenistic period confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese between 280 BCE and 146 BCE. / Image...
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman: a true Amazonian, she is trained in a range of skills in...
Detail from a bell krater depicting the Delphic oracle atop her tripod. / The British Museum via...
Opening from Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura at the Cambridge University Library, manuscript dated to 1563. / Wikimedia...