NEW YORK — To add context to an exhibition of Hellenistic art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reproduced a copy of the famous "Alexander Mosaic," which once enlivened the floor of an ...
The glory of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin’s legendary Museum Island is the eponymous Great Altar excavated by the German engineer Carl Humann between 1878 and 1886. With the permission of the Ottoman ...
A major new Met exhibit shows the breadth and richness of Hellenistic art. Prepare for gold-plated head-dresses, and two meter-tall vases. Former Travel Editor The Hellenistic period inspired awe in ...
Preface / Anna Kouremenos -- Foreword / Sir John Boardman -- Introduction / Roberto Rossi -- Alcibiades, "a classical archetype for Alexander" / Michael Vickers -- Hybridisation of palatial ...
Greek art and life had always been influenced by other cultures, but the expansion in territory during Alexander the Great's conquests brought greater possibilities for mutual cultural exchanges.
Archaeologists have uncovered and restored seven tombs belonging to Hellenistic and Roman periods in Euromos, an ancient city in southwestern Turkey. At least 25 academics and students from both ...
The modern term “Hellenistic art” refers to works produced across a vast and greatly expanded Greek-speaking world between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and the foundation of the Roman ...