Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Along the way, they found new icons, whose likenesses, in the form of statues, busts and pictures, adorn classrooms, kafeneia, public squares and textbooks. Kolokotronis, Papaflessas, Athanasios ...

Ancient Rome unfairly has a reputation for having stolen or copied their mythology and religious traditions from the Greeks and given them Latin names to claim as their own. This is easily disproved ...

New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...

Left and top right: Painted replica of the Augustus Prima Porta statue. Below right: Portrait bust of Caligula. From the Gods in Colour exhibition. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Images: Paula Lock.

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Still, the Roman historian Tacitus famously painted a tumultuous picture ... paving the way for one of Rome’s most infamous rulers. When Agrippina’s son Nero ascended to the throne, he was only 16 ...

The statue’s torso was crafted with a robe and sash, carved jewelry, and a left hand crossing the chest—“an uncommon representation in Khmer (Cambodian) art.” A Roman Statue’s Severed ...

Today, Greco-Roman statues are striking in their simplicity due to their stark white coloring and blank eyes. But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in ...

Roman Emperor Nero. Credit: NickW557, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 Few figures in history have been as polarizing and controversial as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...