Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?

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Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem,” on view through June 28 at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Joseph Coscia Jr. / Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem FORT WORTH — “The Holy Sepulcher ...

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The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

A Roman bust of a mythical maenad reveals Indian garnet eyes, offering new evidence of Indo-Roman trade networks and gemstone exchange.

A visitor views the "Classical and Glory" Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Arts exhibition in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Jan 1. WEI LIANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE TAIYUAN — "To the glory that was Greece ...

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum on Friday opens the biggest exhibition ever devoted to art inspired by "Metamorphoses", Roman poet Ovid's most famous work, featuring contributions from artists as varied as ...

A third-century B.C.E. plaque unearthed at Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan depicts the mother goddess Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet via ...