Tsarouchis’ “Esatzis” sells for €508,400 as the Greek Sales auction achieves a total turnover of €3.65 million.

Flowers, often part of Minoan and Egyptian art, were symbols of life, the afterlife, and rebirth, according to a study of ...

Castabala’s story stretches back 2,700 years. In the Hellenistic period, it was known as Hieropolis, famous for its sanctuary ...

The San Francisco institution has been amassing a rare encyclopedic exhibition around the oft-overlooked Etruscan culture for ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

Inside View: WSJ columnist Andy Kessler would rather be subjected to Jimmy Kimmel than protected from him by government. The essay on “The Braggart” begins: “Bragging is pretending to have excellences ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

Sun over the Parthenon.Athens, Greece. Credit: wikimedia commons / Mstyslav Chernov CC BY-3.0 The enduring influence of Greek art and philosophy in modern times was explored during a thought-provoking ...

In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

There’s no question that Greek mythology is prevalent in modern storytelling. Whether it’s the Percy Jackson book series, Broadway musicals, or video games, figures of these ancient stories are ...