Each Greek and Roman coin is a window into ancient history. This video uses a selection of especially intriguing coins to explore how numismatic evidence illuminates the classical world.

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses. reading time 3 minutes Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked ...

Athens has a plural name rooted in Ancient Greek language and mythology, revealing the city’s deep cultural and historical ...

The names used to refer to the Greek people and their land have complex origins, and their definitions shifted dramatically ...

The author of a sweeping re-examination of Western history reveals the global reach of Greek and Roman antiquity Naoíse Mac Sweeney - Author, The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives Examples of ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...

Archaeologists find more than 40 Roman coins and melted jewelry in a burned chest from the third century AD in Histria.

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

The senses are not created equal when it comes to aesthetics. Much of our aesthetic engagement is visual or auditory. In the museum, in the theatre, at concerts, we use our eyes and ears. And while ...

Kitty Smith is a member of the Australian Society for Classical Studies and of Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies. Could you ever be truly alone in the woods of ancient Greece or Rome?

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed at the Louvre since 1821, is one of the most famous artworks in the world. Yet relatively little is ...