A newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits ...
A study of a mosaic discovered on an English farm in 2020 shows that the Romans knew more than just Homer's version of the ...
New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...
The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...
In 2020, a farmer in England's Rutland county notified authorities about the possibility that there was a Roman villa located ...
Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...
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Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman mosaic depicting a long-lost Trojan War narrative, including the weighing of ...
I have been studying Greek history for a very long time. In fact, I learned ancient and medieval Greek history at the University of Illinois and received a doctorate in modern Greek and European ...
The Greeks had a word for it: hubris. But Brad Pitt’s Achilles wears it well. Whether he slices through a horde of Trojan soldiers or blithely decapitates a statue of Apollo or struts naked through a ...