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?

During the Early Iron Age, the peoples of Central Italy sometimes placed the ashes of the dead in urns modelled after huts or houses.

In ancient Greece, serious crimes were punishable by death. What forms did the death penalty take in Classical Athens?

The eighth century BC was a time of great change in the Early Iron Age Aegean. One of these changes is exemplified by the reorganization of settlements on the Cycladic island of Andros.

In this article, we examine the differences between red- and black-figure vases and go through the process of how they were made.

A beautiful fresco from Pompeii depicts a scene straight from Virgil’s Aeneid: Aeneas being treated for a leg wound.

In Greek and Roman mythology, what is the difference between satyrs, sileni, and fauns, who all possessed animal characteristics?

The Allard Pierson and Royal Ontario Museums together possess a unique hoard of Hellenistic clay sealings from Edfu in Egypt.