Hugo Meyer, a professor of art and archaeology emeritus at Princeton University whose scholarship focused on Greek sources of Roman art and Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, died from an accident at ...

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 ...

When Alexander the Great conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire and hauled off the treasures of its royal capitals, he unleashed perhaps the greatest economic stimulus package of all time. The city ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Preface / Anna Kouremenos -- Foreword / Sir John Boardman -- Introduction / Roberto Rossi -- Alcibiades, "a classical archetype for Alexander" / Michael Vickers -- Hybridisation of palatial ...

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates Pergamon, the stunning city that reveals a great deal about the ancient world, writes Alastair Sooke. When Alexander the Great died in ...