One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they ...

Founded by Alexander the Great's father King Philip II in 356 B.C.E., the historic city of Philippi has become one of the ...

whom the Roman claimed as ancestors. Equally important from Augustus's perspective, however, was the belief that Apollo was also the god of the sun's light and of prophecy. Accordingly ...

The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... Apollo was discovered in the ruins of an ancient Roman house in 1489. It has been at the Vatican since ...

The oldest synagogue in antiquity was on the Greek island of Delos - the island of god Apollo in the Cyclades - and attests the presence of a Jewish community ...