A Greek auditorium with 200 seats, hidden for 2,200 years, has been discovered, transforming the educational and civic ...

A Greek inscription carved into a Roman-era theater seat in Turkey's Apollonia reveals the name of a female priestess.

According to 20th-century Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis, failing to revive the human element in architectural planning may bring about the end of civilization. Professor of the history and ...

Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

The image of Christian Dior's dress set against the ruins of the Acropolis captures the creator's debt to ancient Greek ...

Piranesi’s powerful rendition of Doric architecture. (Courtesy of Cantor Arts Center) In 1777, Italian printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the ancient Greek city of Paestum on ...

Bristol has its own little Acropolis. Two splendid Greek Revival houses, the Francis M. Dimond House and the Captain Josiah Talbot House, sit on the block of Hope St. between Bradford and Franklin ...

Although in the shadow of its ancient hilltop Parthenon, Athens is also home to elegant architectural gems from the 19th and 20th centuries which marked its emergence as modern Greece's capital. But ...

THE subjection of Greek aesthetic initiative to arbitrary ruling, is not the aim of this brief and elementary treatise; it attempts merely to formulate general principles which may assure safe ...

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