Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Greek priests wore no distinctive clothing, as being a priest was more of an obligation than a profession that set them apart from their neighbors. Other unique priestly offices in Roman religion ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

The lack of clothing was not only practical ... naked began to decline with the rise of the Roman Empire. The Romans adopted ...

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 ...

UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to immerse themselves in the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome and trace their influence through history to the present day. Students ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...