The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

New behind-the-scenes images from Christopher Nolan’s fantasy epic The Odyssey offer a glimpse of Odysseus’ clash with Polyphemus, the fearsome Cyclops. The film is based on Homer’s classic poem, ...

The largest statues in the world rise from the ground or pedestals like mythical giants. They are truly remarkable feats, combining artistic ability with unthinkable engineering marvels that capture ...

A French politician is in the limelight for his recent and rather controversial statement. He has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French people as a gift in 1884.

In the original story, Polyphemus was the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and the nymph Thoösa. Odysseus and his men were captured by the cyclops when they were cast ashore on the coast of Sicily.

Twitch got its wires crossed after sending fighting game legend Daigo Umehara’s Bleed Purple statue for reaching 5M hours watched to a French streamer, instead. Daigo ‘The Beast’ Umehara is ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

In the Odyssey wine and food are compared to the food of the gods. The Cyclops Polyphemus, for instance, compared wine given to him by Odysseus to nectar. In Hesiod’s Theogony, after Zeus freed the ...

Some more photos from the set of Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey have been shared online, and this time we have another look at Matt Damon's Odysseus as he prepares to enter the cave of ...

The United States has firmly rejected a suggestion by French politician Raphael Glucksmann that the Statue of Liberty should be returned to France, dismissing his remarks as unwarranted and ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...