"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years ... and surmounted by ...

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world – her own world came crashing down. In the middle of the civil war that would bring ...

“The modern perception of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture is influenced by approximately two centuries of scholarly studies, which have focused almost exclusively on shape and form, thus ...

The appearance of the sculpture ... Roman religion. At the feet of the male statue, archaeologists found a preserved root of an ancient tree. This detail adds to the significance of the relief ...

They were often decorated with relief sculptures depicting ... evolving artistic sensibilities of the Roman period. The Classical era of ancient Greek sculpture, which emerged in the 5th century ...

In ancient Greece and Rome ... The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...