The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

In ancient Greek mythology, before the more famous Olympian Greek gods (think Poseidon, Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes and, of course, Zeus) came another group of deities: the Titans. These were the ...

Greek mythology ... between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld. Though Hades was the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, the most powerful Olympians, he ...

According to Homer’s 8th century B.C.E. poem, Nyx was so powerful that even Zeus, the King of the Gods, feared her ... in a number of different ancient cults. Furthermore, Nyx’s recurring mentions in ...

A rare "Corinthian" helmet from ancient Greece will go up for auction in London later this month. Such helmets were iconic of the ancient Greek style of infantry fighting and have become emblems ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed ... in the arkteia rite would dance around the altar and sometimes imitate bears to appease Artemis ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece ... A palm-sized icon of Zeus — with modern gemstones that have been added ...

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ancient metal ... later Eli Wizevich The Greek document details a ...

Nobody seems to have noticed the significance of the locations in St Paul’s missionary journey other than to note that there were Jewish communities in those locations.