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FILTER RESULTS ►Dallas Museum of Art presents masterpieces of Greek and Roman art from the British Museum
The Dallas Museum of Art presents The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece: Masterworks from the British Museum, an international touring exhibition of more than 120 objects exploring the human form through exquisite works exclusively from the British Museum?s famed collection of Greek and Roman art. Show More Summary
Love of History | Ancient city discovered in Greece
Ancient city discovered in Greece via Love of History
DNA reveals origin of Greece's ancient Minoan culture
The palace of Knossos on Crete is now a major tourist attraction Europe's first advanced civilisation was local in origin and not imported from elsewhere, a study says. Analysis of DNA from ancient remains on the Greek island of Crete...Show More Summary
Podcast | Gideon Nisbet on the reception of ancient Greece and Rome in film and videogames
Dr. Gideon Nisbet’s podcast on the reception of ancient Greece and Rome in film and videogames via Gustavus Adolphus College.
Evolution shapes new rules for ant behavior, Stanford research finds
In ancient Greece, the city-states that waited until their own harvest was in before attacking and destroying a rival community's crops often experienced better long-term success. It turns out that ant colonies that show similar selectivity when gathering food yield a similar result. Show More Summary
Donald Kagan's farewell
Matthew Kaminski, "Democracy may have had its day", WSJ 4/26/2013: Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his "farewell lecture" here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume...Show More Summary
Researcher Claims Heterosexuality Causes Mistrust Among Men
Canadian author and researcher Robert Joseph Greene has spent over 17 years looking at gays in history and has noticed the common thread of the suppression of homosexuality dating back to ancient Greece.... read more
Museum Burka: Greece Demands Ancient Statues Returned From Qatar After Museum Covers Them To Protect Muslim Sensibilities
The only problem that Qatar has with ancient history is that its pre-Islamic art falls to comply with Islamic sensibilities. An exhibit has been touring the world on the beauty and grace of “The Olympics — Past and Present.” Two ancient statues showed this expression in artistic form but the Islamic nation decided to obscure [...]
Hublot returns to ancient Greece with new Antikythera SunMoon Watch
Last year, Hublot hit Baselworld 2012 with its limited edition Antikythera watch inspired by the Antikythera mechanism – a 2100 year old analog computer found off the shores of Crete that is considered the first "astronomical calculator."...Show More Summary
Classics Confidential | Gail Holst-Warhaft on Penelope’s Confession
The official description: In this interview, Professor Gail Holst-Warhaft of Cornell University joined CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni to discuss her love of Greece (both ancient and modern), and to share with us how this life-long love affair found a creative outlet in her poetry collection Penelope’s Confession (Cosmos Books, 2007).
Did an Earthquake Destroy Ancient Greece?
Remnants of Cyclopean walls built by the Mycenaeans can be found at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The grand Mycenaens, the first Greeks, inspired the legends of the Trojan Wars, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." Their culture abruptly declined around 1200 B.C., marking the start of a Dark Ages in Greece. Show More Summary
Sex in Pompeii
The ancient Greeks and Romans had a much more enlightened attitude toward sex than we do, as you can see from this Winged Phallic Symbol Statue, Dionysus Temple, Delos Island, Greece (300 BC). You won't find anything like this in a modern temple, whatever the religion. Show More Summary
Greek Butts Get the Boot in Doha
Greek Butts Get the Boot in Doha
Greece has pulled to ancient Greek statues from an exhibit in Doha, were officials were afraid thy might scandalize women.
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Pass the Fig Leaf
The incipit of an AFP item (via Google): Greece has pulled two ancient statues from an ongoing Olympic Games exhibition in Qatar in a dispute over nudity, a culture ministry source said on Tuesday. “The statues have already returned to Greece,” a culture ministry source told AFP, adding: “Organisers in Qatar wanted to cover up [...]
A 'sign' of the Greek economy
By European PressPhoto Agency -- Just as ancient temples remind humanity of the once great Greek Empire, empty billboards represent Greece’s current situation. They can now be easily found in Greece’s capital, Athens. They are ragged and empty, or else carryin …
Lecture | Laura Ambrosini ~ ‘Sports in ancient Etruria’
From the Sport and Competition in Ancient Greece and Rome series last June:
Lecture | Reinhard Senff on’Ancient horse races and the hippodrome at Olympia’
Another one from the Sport and Competition in Ancient Greece and Rome conference this past June at the British Museum:
Lecture | Robin Osborne ~ The origins of the non-competitive sports day
From the Sport and Competition in Ancient Greece and Rome conference at the British Museum in June 2012:
d.m. Kathryn Bosher
From the Globe and Mail: Kathryn Bosher studied very old things and died at a very young age. An accomplished, respected scholar of ancient Greek theatre, especially as it was performed outside ancient Greece, Prof. Bosher had also been a world-class rower for Canada. She packed much into a life that metastatic lung cancer cut [...]
Lecture | Oliver Taplin: Competition and the spread of Greek Theatre
From the Sport and Competition in Ancient Greece and Rome conference:
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