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Why exercise to music? There are many depictions of professional athletes training, or competing, to the accompaniment of music in ancient Greek vase paintings.
There are many depictions of professional athletes training, or competing, to the accompaniment of music in ancient Greek vase paintings.
The second part applies the principles of closed and open form to a specific and crucial change in the Greek vase painter's conception of his surface: in the Orientalizing reaction to Geometric art, ...
Greek authorities announced that scores of stolen artifacts including coins and vessels have surfaced by surprise in an Athens basement.
A vase like this being discovered in a such an early context is unprecedented in central Greece. The vessel’s concentric circles are characteristic of the proto-geometric style that Coldsteam and ...
A valuable ancient vase gifted more than 70 years ago by the Greek government to an Italian prime minister has been voluntarily returned to Greece by the former statesman's grandson. The Greek ...
This article contains spoilers for Kaos. Kaos is a modern-day, darkly comic reworking of Greek myth. If, like me, you got hooked on it, you might be wondering what was actually taken from myth and ...
Black Figure Geometric Krater (c.750-735 BCE) is a large two- handled vase. Such vases ranged from approximately fourteen to twenty-two inches in height. The vase was used to dilute wine with water.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians’ graves more than 2,000 years ago, including one with an emotional family scene, have been returned to Greece ...
ROME — A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was justified in trying to reclaim an ...