A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

Shedding new light on an often underappreciated age, the Getty’s ‘Power and Pathos’ reveals the Hellenistic world’s revolution in sculpture. Eric Gibson ...

Paul Herrmann, Verzeichnis der antiken Originalbildwerke der Staatlichen Skulptuursammlung zu Dresden (Dresden, Germany: W and B. V. Baensch, 1915), 44. 4. Jenifer Neils, “University Antiquities ...

The major objective of the publications programme of the British School at Athens is to publish work by those conducting research using its facilities. The Annual therefore includes articles of short ...

In Ancient Greek, the word demon (δαίμων), also spelled daemon, had several meanings, the main one being "he who dispenses ...

Art collective MSCHF has just revealed a rodent-themed artwork that’s been long in the making—three years, to be specific, or decades, if we’re going by copyright terms. Walt Disney and His Sons is ...

The Rolls Royce emblem, dubbed the Spirit of Ecstasy, draws heavily from the Nike of Samothrace, a Hellenistic masterpiece ...

A telling moment of sly wit crops up early in “Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World,” the glorious and unprecedented exhibition of works from the ancient Mediterranean newly ...

Can you give just a general definition of what's meant by the term the Hellenistic world? The Hellenistic world is that world that was created after the conquests of the near east by Alexander the ...