Humanism, a movement that lasted over three ... and historians of the Greek and Roman period. Humanists believed that by studying the Greek and Latin languages, with the help of commentaries ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...

Humanism was born in Renaissance Italy ... and discovering Cicero’s “Pro Archia,” in which the Roman statesman argued that the Greek poet Archias merited citizenship for his “human and ...

"But one has to understand that our current, whitewashed idea of Greek and Roman antiquity is wrong. It's false." The knowledge that the Greek and Roman sculpture was brightly painted isn't new.

A visitor views the "Classical and Glory" Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Arts exhibition in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Jan 1. WEI LIANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE TAIYUAN — "To the glory that was ...