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An ancient erotic mosaic showing a sensual scene, stolen by a Nazi officer during World War II, has been returned to Pompeii after more than 80 years. The piece, believed to have once adorned a ...
In 2022, investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) planned to dip its toes into the sparkling Aegean Sea around northern Greece ...
A new film about Modigliani, directed by Johnny Depp,  Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, is released this week.
A Shakespearean-style Greek tragedy wouldn’t be the same without power-hungry tyrants and lots of death, and “Antigone” is full of both. Every year, True Troupe Theatre performs its Classics in the ...
Beehive Books is transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic retellings of Greek mythology through fifteen original paintings ...
Artemis is generally known as the ancient Greek goddess of hunting; however, she was a deity with various cults associated ...
Now Pochoda is back with “Ecstasy,” her first foray into the horror genre.
Elizabeth Banks thinks her new murder-mystery show “The Better Sister” has a few things in common with Shakespeare. “I felt like this entire endeavor was like a Greek tragedy,” Banks said ...
In the imagination of an artist, a tragedy can turn into something creative and even beautiful. Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina provided that opportunity for a New Orleans-based artist with a ...
My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?
On Oct. 28, 2015, an overloaded boat filled with refugees broke up and capsized off the coast of Lesvos, a Greek island. Hundreds were thrown into the water, and dozens were killed.
Unlike Greek tragedy, which was woven into the collective life of the community, modern art often struggles to unify audiences. Cinema, literature and television exist in a fragmented cultural ...