Nude statue of ‘Venus’ by New Orleans’ late Mardi Gras master sculptor Randy Morrison to be installed in Coliseum Square Park ...

While repairing a sewer along Rome's ancient Appian Way, workers came across an incredible discovery: an ancient marble ...

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the ... World for its 41-foot-tall statue—was completed several decades later, the Heraion was dedicated exclusively to Hera, the goddess of marriage, family ...

As the goddess of love, beauty and sexual pleasure ... It was a beauty contest, after all, that touched off the Trojan War. Athena, Hera and Aphrodite vied for Paris to decide who was the fairest ...

490 B.C. sculpture of the Goddess ... because of Hera, partly because of my beauty. If only I could shed my beauty and assume an uglier aspect The way you would wipe color off a statue.

Among the nearly 3,000 stone inscriptions found on Delos are those that record the ingredients necessary for kosmesis for the statues of Hera and Artemis ... of Flora, the goddess of flowers ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis in Sicily ... used on statues of gods such as Artemis and Hera. According to the researcher who published ...

the goddess of the hunt, was ritually treated with perfumed oils. On the Greek island of Delos, inscriptions reveal that statues of Artemis and Hera were maintained with rose-scented perfumes.

At Greece’s Sanctuary of Delos, meanwhile, Brøns also found inscriptions listing perfume ingredients — olive oils, beeswax, and natron, among them — which were used on statues of Artemis and Hera ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed ... For example, Athena, the goddess of war, often wears a helmet and carries a spear and a shield, while Hera is often seen holding a pomegranate ...

In Iliad, Zeus’ wife Hera asks Hypnos ... belonged to Nyx and that a statue of her even existed at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Overall, Greek ...