A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

She was worshiped all over the Greek world ... first acts were to erect a wooden statue of Athena and to found the Panathenaia, a festival in honor of the goddess. Athena is the patron goddess ...

Heraklion From its yacht-decorated Venetian harbour to its lofty walled bastions, Crete’s capital rewards wanderers, and the ...

In addition to the 1,800-year-old piece of engraved jewelry, archaeologists discovered a trove of Carolingian coins, medieval pottery and more ...

The statue of Athena is one of the exhibits ... especially when it came to gods, goddesses and heroes. The Greek and Roman sculptural arts also pursued a similar level of aesthetics in geometry.

It is generally safe to assume that a princess would not marry a commoner. A Roman copy of a Greek statue of goddess Athena. Credit: Tetraktys/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Agathoclea must have been ...

The statue of Athena is one of the exhibits to be displayed ... especially when it came to gods, goddesses and heroes. The Greek and Roman sculptural arts also pursued a similar level of aesthetics in ...

Nashville’s Parthenon houses an enormous statue of the Greek goddess Athena, and Birmingham is fond of statues of classical gods too! Head to the top of Red Mountain overlooking the city to find a ...

To wit, the post-classical Greek sculptor Praxiteles sculpted a famous statue in antiquity ... they mock and abuse him. The goddesses appear and offer him things (i.e. Hera unshakable power, Athena ...