Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical ... into the lifelike embodiments of gods, goddesses, and rulers.

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods.