The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Meet the golden goddess on the Alabama Power Company Headquarters building in Downtown BHAM — the Divinity of Light herself, ...

A marble relief portrait over the gallery doors of the ... “The figure of Moses leads us directly to God and thus to the transcendent dignity of the human being. Moses provides us with a good ...

Small Praxitelean marble statue of god Dionysus with a wreath of ivy and pine nuts on the head. Traces of color are preserved at the beard and the hair. Credit: Egisto Sani, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 While some ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

A marble relief from first- or second-century Ephesus, present-day Turkey, showing a fight between a beast fighter and a lion.Credit...The Trustees of the British Museum Trilobites A discovery in ...

The location of the bite matches a marble relief carving in the British Museum that shows a gladiator being mauled by a lion. The marble relief carving that shows a gladiator being mauled by a ...

Helpfully there is a fragment of a marble relief held in the British Museum that shows a lion biting a man in almost exactly the manner which we are proposing. Marble relief with lion and ...