The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...

Caduceus — that's the name of Hermes' rod, a staff with two intertwined snakes and wings, which the god, known as Mercury in ...

Look to the sky – and ask Bulldog nation for support – and one of Earth's quasi-moons gets a cool new name, thanks to ...

Though not a seer, I think the splashiest, grandest exhibition of 2025 in America will be Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection. An impressive selection from a Rome ...

Here are some of the most important names in the Roman religion. When the Romans came across Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, they were so impressed that they appropriated his image, iconography and ...

Carmenta, also known as Nicostrate, had a festival dedicated to her, the Carmentalia, and was often represented with a crown ...

The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used ...

Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a ...

Take your students into the world of Greek and Roman myths—ancient stories about heroes, monsters, gods, and goddesses. Seven activities introduce students to these stories and their characters ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Ideas about softness and weakness, hardship and strength, have been central to reactionary politics since the beginning of ...