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Arete of Cyrene: The Greek Woman Who Schooled Men on Philosophy and Pleasure
A woman named Arete of Cyrene played a crucial role in shaping ancient Greek philosophy with her contributions.
Greek City Times1d
76 Greek Jewish Artifacts to Return to Greece’s Jewish Museum in Historic Agreement
In a historic agreement, 76 Greek Jewish artifacts will return to the Jewish Museum of Greece from Poland’s Jewish Historical ...
Artnet News3d
The Only Ancient Greek Theater on the Ionian Islands Is Finally Unearthed
A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...
Greek Reporter3d
Western Looting of Greek Antiquities During the War of Independence
In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...
Greek City Times5d
The Antikythera Mechanism: A 2,000-Year-Old Mystery That Defies History
The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical calculator, was found in a Roman-era shipwreck near ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
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Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Were Meant To Be Sniffed – And They Smelled Divine
The Greek poet Kallimachos, meanwhile, described a sculpture of the Egyptian queen Berenice II as ... that the artists necessarily strove for naturalism or realism in the modern sense, but rather that ...
WFAE16d
Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...