The city of Crotone, a historic jewel of Magna Graecia, is embracing its Greek heritage with the addition of a new, imposing ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

His belief that the gods must be good or otherwise not be gods ran contrary to almost all Greek mythology ... particularly the gold and ivory Statue of Zeus that sat upon his throne in the ...

At Olympia, the temple to Zeus contained a thirty-foot gold and marble statue of the god seated ... Apollodorus recounts in ...

“When it comes to Greek statues, there is a sense of holiness and a pureness to convey a sense of nobility,” he said. “The beauty of mythology ... proverbs prevail. Zeus (left) and Ares ...