The exhibition features necklaces, sculpted rings, earrings, pins, and tools from the Hellenistic goldsmithing tradition ...

Another example, the Letter of Aristeas, holds up Jews and Judaism in a favorable light by the standards of Greek culture. The one significant difference that even most Hellenized Jews appeared not to ...

The Jockey of Artemision, a large Greek bronze sculpture of a young boy riding a horse, is a magnificent surviving statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example of a racehorse in Greek sculpture ...

Squire, Michael and Grethlein, Jonas 2014. “Counterfeit in Character but Persuasive in Appearance”: Reviewing theAinigmaof theTabula Cebetis. Classical Philology ...

The essays consider the kings, queens, and power figures of the Hellenistic dynasties, as well as ancient Israelite kings, the Babylonian and Persian rulers of the Bible, Parthians, and Romans. The ...

A mans head and neck are shown, and his neck ends at the base in an uneven way which seems broken. He has a square face, a narrow mouth with full lips, a wide flat nose, and narrow round eyes which ...

she details how the use of clocks quickly expanded in major Hellenistic cities, transforming the way people organized their daily lives, especially in places like Athens, Alexandria, and Rome.

This illustrates, yet again, the need for Greek ... excellent example of how the theoretical tool can be put to very good use. The next two books complement each other well and should be profitably ...

Cupid (“Desire”), the Greek Eros, god of love, is represented as a young boy asleep on a rock covered ... The lighthearted motif goes back to the Hellenistic period (323–30 BCE). Hellenistic sculpture ...

Today, we will explore the story of the man who is our primary source of knowledge about the music of Classical-Hellenistic ...

art writer Julia Halperin was one of the very few to reply straight off with a clear-cut art example: Janet Cardiff and George Bures-Miller’s installation Forty Part Motet (2001). This is a ...

The piece is one of the examples revealing how graceful Greek art was open to embracing different cultural traditions. This respect for "diversity and cultural convergence" was also held by ...