To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

A highlight of the year would have been participating in religious ceremonies, such as the Eleusinian Mysteries that celebrated the rites of Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest, and her daughter ...

Savvides concludes that Kastas' second construction phase likely re-purposed an earlier tomb into a theater of seasonal light, intertwining Persephone-Cybele mythos with royal propaganda.

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

A trove of ancient art, hidden for 70 years, begins an American tour Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Lana Gordon will reprise the role of Persephone in Hadestown on Broadway. She will begin performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre on June 3, replacing Merle Dandridge, who will take her final bow ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled new findings about the enigmatic Tomb I, known as the Tomb of Persephone, located in the Great Tumulus of Vergina, Greece. This monument, considered ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

The idea that women were inferior to men was a widely held belief in ancient Greek society, and one that would go on to influence Western culture for many centuries thanks in large part to the ...

Persephone was best known for becoming the queen of the underworld as the (reluctant) wife of Hades. In the myth, known as the Rape of Persephone, the lord of the underworld was instantly besotted ...

In collaboration with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists, archaeologists have shed light on the meaning of ancient rock art from the Amazon rainforest in a study. A trio of researchers has ...