Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ‘The Creation of Man’ on the vault...
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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...
Icon with the Prophet Elijah, 1180–1200, made in Kastoria, Greece. Egg tempera on wood, 48 13/16 x...
The modern marathon distance comes from the 1908 London Olympics. Shutterstock The story behind the marathon is more complicated than it seems....
10th century CE Greek copy of Aristarchus of Samos’s calculations of the relative sizes of the sun, moon and the...
By Dr. Michael Fowler Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics , Physics Education,Theoretical Condensed Matter...
Eratosthenes teaching in Alexandria, by Bernardo Strozzi / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts via Wikimedia Commons The Greeks made...
Hera, Athena and Iris in the Trojan War (Iris, at the Behest of Zeus, Warns Athena and...
An over-life-size statue of the goddess Venus is the centerpiece of J. Paul Getty, the Collector (Gallery...
Greek and Roman Glass (214) in the reinstalled Getty Villa Centuries-old glassworking techniques dazzle the modern eye...
By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015 Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics , Physics Education,Theoretical Condensed...
Only by dint of repeated manipulations will we gradually come to glimpse the richness of the polytheistic...
Rattling Wine Cup, about 350 B.C., Greek (South Italian). Terracotta, 8 7/16 × 11 7/16 in. The...
Porch of Maidens, Acroplis, Athens / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Marcel DetienneBasil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics...
The detail of the Alexander Mosaic showing Alexander the Great / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Frank L. Holt / 04.16.2018...
Death of Adonis, by Luca Giordano, c.1685 / The Yorck Project via Wikimedia Commons By Elias N. Azar...
Fragment from an ancient copy of Euclid’s Elements / Pinterest, Creative Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015 Maxine...
William Etty’s Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers,...
Celestial map from 1670, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Michael Fowler / 07.23.2015...
Ostraka from classical Athens nominating the persons of Kallias and Megakles. Cycladic Art Museum, Athens, Greece/Wikimedia Commons For the first...
By Dr. Joshua J. Mark / 03.07.2018 Professor of Philosophy Marist College Alexandria is a port city located on the...
Strange as it may seem, many participants at Gallipoli took the time out to ponder the beauty...
Drunken Alcibiades interrupting the Symposium, by Pietra Testa, 1648 / Wikimedia Commons By Mark Cartwright / 02.08.2013 Alcibiades (or Alkibiades) was a...
The Homeric Multitext, Creative Commons By Dr. Margaret Alexiou George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Professor...
Helen McCrory as Medea. Richard Hubert Smith/National Theatre By Dr. Laura Swift / 07.23.2014 Lecturer in Classical Studies The Open...