While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...

In an added bit of poetry, Moeckel pointed out that the Roman god Jupiter — Zeus in the Greek pantheon — is the divine wielder of lightning bolts. These mushballs also appear to play well with ...

At this stage, the statue could be a depiction of anyone from Jupiter to a Roman philosopher. There’s also hope that by removing the dirt, an inscription with additional information surfaces.

Was it part of a monumental statue? Was it venerated before ... hypotheses point to Jupiter, Serapis, or even a philosopher. The beard and majestic expression suggest a god or a sage, and the careful ...

A life-sized statue ... god Neptune holding a trident. It was likely provided as a symbolic payment to Charon, the ferryman who took the dead across the River Styx according to ancient Roman ...

"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 ... herself in the works of Roman writers such as Cicero and ...

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now located in modern-day Turkey—unearthed a marble statue of the god Hermes. “Figures that remained buried for ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped ... carved stone head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump in England.

The slant across the R’s leg, forming the "x", is the symbol for the Roman god Jupiter, patron of medicine. So, when you get a prescription, the doctor is ordering you to take the medicine, fortified ...

was a dedication to Jupiter Dolichenus, a deity especially revered by Roman soldiers," the Polish-Georgian archaeological team wrote in a statement, calling it "unique." "He was the god of war and ...

Valeri also said further study analysis of the statue of the ancient Roman god indicates that the all-white marble statue once had golden hair. “Analysis detected traces of gold. We imagine that ...