Cultural cringe’, that lovely Aussie coinage, perfectly describes the Roman attitude towards Greece. The curators don’t say so, but ...

In Ancient Greece and Rome, pets brought companionship, loyalty, status, and love—from Odysseus’ Argos to Augustus’ raven.

Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

In the wake of Alaric’s devastating invasion of Greece in 396 AD, the Eastern Roman Empire made a fateful decision: seal off the Peloponnese behind a massive stone barrier. The Hexamilion Wall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ruined harbour of Carthage, depicted in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) - Alamy By the 14th century, it was well known that ...

ROME — “Captive Greece held captive her uncouth conqueror and brought the arts to the rustic Latin lands,” as the poet Horace wrote toward the end of the first century B.C., encapsulating in a few ...

A visitor looks at exhibits during a media preview of an exhibition of ancient Greece and Rome art and culture at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, June 14, 2023. An exhibition of ...

Jupiter or Zeus? Venus or Aphrodite? Roman mythology borrowed heavily from Greece—but the gods were reshaped to fit Roman power, politics, and empire.

The recent announcement that Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon is preparing Krapopolis, an animated series for Fox “set in mythical, ancient Greece” and focused on “a flawed family of humans, gods, ...