Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and literature? How it was possible for a citizen to suffer a change of fortune and ...

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.

On the Greek island of Delos, inscriptions reveal that statues ... This is not how people admired these works of art when ...

On the heels of this summer's Olympic Games in London, the Portland Art Museum has teamed with the British Museum to present "The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece," a collection of more than 130 ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful ...

In a darkened college classroom, students are introduced to a projected image of a famous work of Greek art brimming with intense drama. The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting ...

How Ancient Greek Art Inspired the Ballet Russes The Ballets Russes had a longtime dalliance with Ancient Greek traditions especially in the ballet’s most innocent, primitive, and erotic aspects.

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Over fifty artistic representations of hunchbacks survive in Greek and Roman art. They come in the form of mosaics, statuettes, ceramics, wall painting and even sculpture.

In ancient Greece, “poetry, music and drama were one,” the musician said while leading a recent tour of his artwork at the center’s secluded campus a few blocks off Embassy Row in Northwest ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art's recent purchase of an ancient Greek vase shows it's still in the market for antiquities, despite controversies over looting and trafficking.