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Oil painting of the Donations of Alexandria ceremony with Cleopatra and her children

Cleopatra's Children: The End of Egypt

Cleopatra VII had four children with two of the most powerful men in Rome, and not one of them was allowed to live an ordinary life. Caesarion, the last pharaoh...

Cleopatra's Children: The End of Egypt

Cleopatra VII had four children with two of the most powerful men in Rome, and not one of them was allowed to live an ordinary life. Caesarion, the last pharaoh...

Roman Mosaics: How the Romans Turned Stone Into Storytelling AD/BC

Roman Mosaics: How the Romans Turned Stone Into...

Roman mosaics are the largest surviving body of figurative art from the ancient world. Assembled from thousands of tiny stone, glass, and ceramic cubes called tesserae, they covered the floors,...

Roman Mosaics: How the Romans Turned Stone Into...

Roman mosaics are the largest surviving body of figurative art from the ancient world. Assembled from thousands of tiny stone, glass, and ceramic cubes called tesserae, they covered the floors,...

Helen and King Priam on the walls of Troy, watching Greek and Trojan armies on the plain below

Helen of Troy: More Than Beauty

Helen of Troy appears in the oldest surviving works of Greek literature as a figure of startling self-awareness and ambivalence. When she stands on the walls of Troy in Homer's...

Helen of Troy: More Than Beauty

Helen of Troy appears in the oldest surviving works of Greek literature as a figure of startling self-awareness and ambivalence. When she stands on the walls of Troy in Homer's...

Ancient Greek ship at Poseidonia in Magna Graecia, southern Italy

Magna Graecia: The Ancient Greeks Who Lived In ...

Magna Graecia, meaning "Great(er) Greece," was the network of Greek colonies that transformed southern Italy and Sicily from the eighth century BC. Cities like Syracuse, Taras, Kroton, and Sybaris grew...

Magna Graecia: The Ancient Greeks Who Lived In ...

Magna Graecia, meaning "Great(er) Greece," was the network of Greek colonies that transformed southern Italy and Sicily from the eighth century BC. Cities like Syracuse, Taras, Kroton, and Sybaris grew...

Oil painting of the monster Typhon with serpent coils and fire erupting from a volcanic landscape in ancient Greek style

Typhon: The Monster That Almost Destroyed the Gods

Before Zeus could reign unchallenged, he had to survive the worst thing the earth ever produced. Typhon was not a god and not a Titan. He was something older, something...

Typhon: The Monster That Almost Destroyed the Gods

Before Zeus could reign unchallenged, he had to survive the worst thing the earth ever produced. Typhon was not a god and not a Titan. He was something older, something...

Oil painting of the Greek goddess Nyx with dark robes against a cosmic night sky

Nyx: The Primordial Greek Goddess Of Elder Times

Nyx is the Greek primordial goddess of night, one of the very first beings to emerge from Chaos at the beginning of creation. She mothered Death, Sleep, Strife, the Fates,...

Nyx: The Primordial Greek Goddess Of Elder Times

Nyx is the Greek primordial goddess of night, one of the very first beings to emerge from Chaos at the beginning of creation. She mothered Death, Sleep, Strife, the Fates,...