The torch for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit in ancient Olympia in a traditional ceremony on Tuesday, marking the final stretch of the seven-year preparations for the Games start on July 26.
Those words, a directive from Ancient Greek priestess Pythia, are a common thread running through all four artists’ work: this is art about the urge, the desperate need, to figure out who you are.
Mary McFadden, who has died aged 85, was a much-married American socialite who, by her own account, “fell into fashion backwards” in the 1970s, turning her fantasies of ancient civilisation ...
So far, however, its message has proved elusive. (A mysterious disk was found in an Ancient Greek shipwreck.) The disk, which is now kept in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, continues to fuel ...