In this undated photo provided on Tuesday, June 2, 2024 by the Greek Culture Ministry, an ancient marble vase with a family scene is displayed. Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — 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 ...
PRINCETON, NJ — Too many Greek vase jokes are lost in translation. For example, this duel between Achilles and Hector looks serious. But tragicomic ironies abound in ancient epic. The Trojan war ...
ATHENS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The British Museum has lent for the first time in 250 years an ancient Greek water vase, the Meidias hydria, to the Acropolis Museum in Athens for an exhibition which begins ...
The painting is drawn on a white-ground pyxis, a cylindrical box with a lid that was used by women to keep either cosmetics or jewelry. The image itself is of an Amazon warrior on horseback, in battle ...
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - The Worcester Art Museum is opening a new exhibit that focuses on the ancient Greek art of pottery and reveals new findings about the methods and tools used by vase painters.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — As Italian prime minister, Alcide De Gasperi oversaw the post-World War II return to Greece of Rhodes and the other Dodecanese islands. A grateful Greek government presented him ...