The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

According to the same writer, the earliest of the Doric columns were merely substitutes ... and were known and commonly employed by the ancient Greeks on account of their esculent or medicinal ...

Paestum and Velia are not only archaeological sites, but scenarios where the past comes to life, where culture intertwines ...

Nestled on the heights of Agrigento in Sicily, the Valley of the Temples stands as a majestic testament to the grandeur of ...

Founded as a Greek colony in the 6th century B.C., Agrigento became one of the leading cities in the Mediterranean world. Its supremacy and pride are demonstrated by the remains of the magnificent ...

In ancient Greece, those who wanted to enter the temple ... fond of using a system of proportions for their most important ...

A marble relief depicting a prancing horse believed to have been part of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, Italy, has ...

The isolation of the site ensured many significant features survived largely intact. The temple is one of the earliest post-Parthenonian edifices and the earliest monument in which all three ancient ...