Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old statue of the Roman God Hercules at the site of the ancient Greek city of Philippi in Northern Greece. Philippi has long been believed to be one of the ...

Most are agreed that art fair online viewing rooms are pretty dry affairs, viewers stifling yawns as they click on yet another jpeg. So one exhibitor at Tefaf Online this week (1-4 November, preview ...

A one-night-only art exhibition in Moscow casts Vladimir Putin in the role of Hercules, hero of Greek mythology, equating the Russian president’s political achievements to the demigod’s famed 12 ...

The ancient Greeks did not require perfection of their heroes, only greatness. They would certainly recognize some of our heroic figures (trapped miners, soldiers, quick-thinking pilots), but not our ...