Boxer at Rest (Terme Boxer; Boxer of the Quirinal) Unknown Greek artist c. 330–50 BCE Bronze with copper inlay Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy For the... Continue Reading →

Portrait of Alexander the Great (the so-called Azara Alexander), Roman marble copy of a Greek original, c. 1–50 C.E, Louvre, Paris Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BCE... Continue Reading →

Temple of Aphrodite, converted to a Christian basilica, view of standing columns. 1st century BCE–2nd century CE (converted 5th century CE). Marble. Aphrodisias (modern Geyre), Aydın Province, Turkey. In the... Continue Reading →

Artemision Zeus or Poseidon, c. 460 B.C.E., bronze, 2.09 m high, Early Classical (Severe Style), recovered from a shipwreck off Cape Artemision, Greece in 1928, National Archaeological Museum, Athens. There... Continue Reading →

The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece Nobody tells you that the Parthenon is smaller than you expect. Not physically. It is enormous, obviously, a fact your body understands... Continue Reading →

Terracotta column-krater, Lydos, Archaic, ca. 550 BCE, Attic, Terracotta, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Here is a thing worth knowing about ancient Greek pottery. People used it. They drank... Continue Reading →

André Aciman's novel, and Luca Guadagnino's 2017 film,  is saturated with ancient Greek art. They are not backdrop elements, but arguments. The crumbling statues in the Perlman villa garden, the... Continue Reading →

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping, Hellenistic, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Greek, Bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Desire, for the ancient Greeks, was not a private tremor. It was a... Continue Reading →

In ancient Greek art, water was never only an element of scenery. It was a force that shaped identity, danger, and transformation. Rivers were personified as gods, seas were chaotic... Continue Reading →