Maja Mitic is Serbian.The tale needed two women to tell it, stressed Hoxha's co-director Mitic, a prominent figure in Serbian ...

Hypsipyle was the mythical ancient Greek queen of Lemnos who ruled over a matriarchal society after all the men were ...

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

it is not certain whether the profession was also typically male-oriented, as was the case for ancient Greece. To make the figurines, wet clay sheets were pressed into molds, which resulted in ...

The famous conqueror’s burial location remains a mystery, but new research claims that material found in one of the iconic ...

Politicians like Cicero saw gladiators as vain and self-indulgent, while the true warriors engaged in wars of words.

Gladiator II is now in cinemas, and Ridley Scott’s epic, a sequel to his 2000 Oscar winner, has yielded much comment about its homoeroticism. Certainly there is a strong sense of feminisation. Take ...

After starring in Conclave, Ralph Fiennes is already back in theaters with The Return, which sees him star as the hero Odysseus.

Contrary to the "strength and honor" depicted in Hollywood films "Gladiator" and "Gladiator II," some ancient Romans ...

Italian police have recovered a trove of “exceptionally valuable” Etruscan funereal artefacts stolen in an illegal excavation ...

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Acropolis Museum has inaugurated its Excavation Museum. At the heart of this new space ...