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

Latin language and Roman literature focuses its research on the Latin language and material written in Latin from antiquity to the modern period. In recent years, the emphasis has been on the ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek and Roman Studies is naturally interdisciplinary ... as it allows students to tailor their curriculum to their particular interests. Program courses consist of language, literature ...

While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed a handful of references to sweet-smelling statues. She was intrigued, so she decided to go looking for even more mentions of scented sculptures.

But recent excavations, bolstered by cutting-edge technology and the discovery of an ancient coin, reveal a much larger story ...

"[The] triumphal arc, which was built in the 3rd century in memory of the Roman Empire's victory against the Persians, looks ...

"The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ancient cultures that is attested in surviving art and literature had a significantly different function and is never identical with ...