Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Given that the newsfeed these days reads like Yuval Noah Harari on a psychedelic trip, it’s understandable that a brilliant ...

The myth of the all-white Greco-Roman sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is ...

The statue was found at the ruins of a nymphaeum, a fountain shrine dedicated to the nymphs of Greco-Roman mythology, near the city’s south gate. Alongside the intact Hermes statue were statue ...

While most surviving Greco-Roman sculptural artifacts are pristinely white, thousands of years ago, the statues were brilliantly colored and sometimes even adorned with jewelry and garments.