The Gemma Augustea, a beautiful piece of Roman art, reveals Augustus’ imperial ambitions and was therefore kept out of the public eye.

A lavishly produced television series that manages to make the story of the Trojan War utterly dull to watch. A waste of potential.

A closer look at a stele from the fourth century BC, currently in Munich, that marked the grave of Demetrius, who probably died in battle.

Odysseus’ performs many ill-deeds on his twenty-year journey from Ithaca to Troy and back again. In the modern world, we are often enraptured by the details of his journey, but we can also be deeply ambivalent about the complicated man himself.

A scene on an amphora from Eleusis, near Athens, is the earliest representation of the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus and his men.

While modern audiences tend to be sympathetic towards the trickster hero Odysseus, the leading character of the epic poem that is named after him, a closer look reveals him to be a terrible person.

Different types of government use different language. A short treaty from Athens provides an example of this from the ancient world.

The suicide of the hero Ajax, the result of a dispute over the ownership of Achilles’ armour, was a popular motif in Archaic Greek art.

Scholarship has tended to downplay the promiscuity of Etruscan women as described by Greek sources. But with evolving modern sexual sensibilities, perhaps a different approach is required.

A reference to the Salii as “jumping priests of Mars” leads me to wonder: who were these Roman priests and why did they jump?