The Iliad is a poem of violence, with many of the scores of deaths described in excruciating detail. But the fight is not ...

The ancient Greeks settled on the Aeolian Islands sometime in the Bronze Age where they traded with their neighbors ...

Homer mentions this in ... through the Middle Ages and the Ottoman period. Also read Mysterious 1,800-Year-Old Statue Found During Car Park Construction Ancient Tombs Unearthed at Construction ...

It is - to be frank - super weird. Firstly, the adult clothes age the strip in a way that Charlie Brown's zig-zag shirt never ...

You might think, given the intervening millennia, that we would already have found most of the world's ancient treasures ... mosaic depicting a scene from Homer's epic, The Iliad.

Instead of trying to break down the art of naming a child, let’s try something different and use art as inspiration for the ...

Denver is known for many things—skiing, hiking, the Broncos, craft beer, lots of sunshine. But museums? Not so much. So, you ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

But it is needful to distinguish between this view as it was held in Hellenistic or Roman times and as it was held by the Greeks of an earlier period ... country of the ancient world contributed ...

Ancient Greek and Latin literature (covering a period from approximately 800 BCE to 500 CE ... you have knowledge of some of the most important and most influential classics (e.g. Homer, Sophocles, ...

Since then, many poets have recycled Homer’s and Virgil’s materials to create new epics written to advance their own ambitious nations. And later emperors used ancient epics to glamorize ... Out of a ...

In Ancient Greece, Noumenia, the day of the new moon, was considered to be "the holiest of days," according to Plutarch.