Mexican authorities "closed" a 10-foot-tall statue of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, that was erected in May in the Gulf of Mexico just off the town of Progreso, Yucatan, after legal ...

Archaeologists near Bulgaria’s southeastern border with Greece uncovered a nearly 7-foot statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes during a dig this week. The unexpected find happened during ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed a marble statue that may depict Hermes, the Greek messenger god. It was found in an ancient sewer, where it appears to have been buried for some 2,000 years.

The "Greek Slave," represents the incredible but true story of a girl from Psara who was captured in the Greek War of ...

Louvre Museum, Paris The Greek poet Antipater ... important divinity, the new statue had to measure up to what it represented—the Rhodians’ victory and the god who made it possible.

Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue of Artemis ... related to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and theater.

Whether called Dionysus (his Greek name ... known as the “twice-born god.” The infant DionysusThe infant Dionysis is portrayed in a fourth-century B.C. statue by Praxiteles from the Temple ...

"A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived as a statue in stone. It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess ... and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples.

In Crete, the birthplace of the Greek god Zeus, legendary architect Daedalus was inspired to create a labyrinth beside the rolling waves of the Aegean Sea. In Greek mythology, Daedalus was ...