Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

The civilization created the first European writing system and built vast palace complexes with vibrant art, but seemed to spring up in isolation, experts said. DNA DISCOVERY IDENTIFIES LIVING ...

The ancient Athenians considered most everyone else barbarians, and that snobbery has trickled down to us through the eons. When we think of Greek civilization, we think of the Golden Age of ...

Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive today. About a quarter of those are gathered in an exhibit at the National ...

Introduction. The three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E. are collectively known as ...

I took my time to observe and admire dozens of masterpieces of Greek art, dating from about 5,000 BCE to about 400 of our era. The Getty collection of Greek art starts with the Neolithic Age of ...

The Dallas Museum of Art recently opened a show titled, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece in Dallas, Texas. A model of Olympia is on display at the DMA on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

The Greek government seems lately to agree. In July 2019, Nicholas Yatromanolakis, a Harvard graduate, was appointed secretary for contemporary culture, before being promoted at the start of 2021 ...

Garrick’s passion for Greek art and culture has been well-documented through the years, to the point that Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer in 2018 named him the city’s honorary “Cultural and ...