Icons of the Hellenic World will be the first major exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons that focuses exclusively on Greek and Byzantine iconography. On view June 22 - October 21, 2018, the ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Greek art and life had always been influenced by other cultures, but the expansion in territory during Alexander the Great's conquests brought greater possibilities for mutual cultural exchanges.

The Hellenic world emerges in our dream half history, half fable. How the great names rise, passionless as marble, bathed in cloudless noon! Plato, Leonidas, Pericles, Phidias, Homer — strained by ...

Humans have had almost ceaseless difficulties in working and living together. Superstition, religious ideas, race, geography, ownership of land, and language engulf them so much, they often fail to ...

"The Books of Andronicus Callistus, 1475-76" Andronicus Callistus was one of the most able Greek scholars of his day. This paper examines the period between Callistus’ departure from Florence in March ...