Some were even perfumed, in an attempt to transform them into the lifelike embodiments of gods ... On the Greek island of ...

Now, a researcher says there's another aspect to these statues to consider ... "Within Greek myth there's this idea that the smell goes up to the gods on Mount Olympus ... and it delights them.

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless ... set in temples to the gods or as memorials.

deemed to have been chosen by the gods. The first ever sports commentator was Homer. In Book XXIII of the Iliad, the ancient Greek poet gave a detailed description of the funerary games that ...