Carmenta, also known as Nicostrate, had a festival dedicated to her, the Carmentalia, and was often represented with a crown ...

A new exhibition in Athens uses art and antiquities from the Cyclades islands to reveal the experiences of ancient Greek ...

Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...

An Augustan Roman marble copy of the head of Medusa. GLYPTOTHEK MUSEUM IN MUNICH In Ovid's Roman retelling of the Greek myth, Poseidon, the god of the sea, desired Medusa and raped her in Athena's ...

It was one of several fountains installed around that time — at train stations, the city Market House, Paschal Square  — that ...

Exactly why the sculpture was attacked by University of Georgia students may always be a mystery. But 70 years later, ...

Former Dixon comptroller and convicted embezzler Rita Crundwell is again making headlines. This time, Crundwell is the ...

The inaugural parade of 1857, on a March day that was surprisingly warm, celebrated President-elect James Buchanan with ...

On a chilly January night, hundreds of people gathered on the steep and narrow cobblestoned streets of San Bartolome de ...

The Acropolis Museum located only 1,000 feet from the famed hill of the same name hosts some of the world's most important antiquities ...

The new series “Scam Goddess” – based on the popular podcast with comedian Laci Mosley – opens with a story familiar to Quad-Cities-area residents. Rita Crundwell, the ...

A massive embezzlement scandal, orchestrated by the city’s comptroller and treasurer, Rita Crundwell, shook the community to ...