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

Today, Greco-Roman statues are striking in their simplicity due to their stark white coloring and blank eyes. But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 ...

The “us versus them” mentality, or “good guys” versus “bad guys,” is a huge part of Trump’s strategy and has become popular ...

Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

Novelist Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois) presents a collection of incisive essays exploring “the crossroads”: “a location of difficulty and possibility, a boundary Continue ...

After an earthquake damaged the building, construction crews started working in the basement and unearthed the forgotten Roman ruins. Take a look.

The ancient Roman ruins under Sisak city hall as seen during excavations. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media In ancient Greece and Rome, an odeon was a “comparatively small ...