Greece

Among the treasures of ancient Greek art, few works capture the raw energy and emotional power of the Jockey of Artemision. This life-sized bronze sculpture of a young boy riding…

A Poetic Homecoming: Cavafy’s Ithaca In his poem Sailing to Ithaca, Konstantinos Cavafy uses Odysseus’ return from Troy as a metaphor for the human journey. Ithaca, rugged and luminous, stands…

An Ancient Greek Machine Rewriting the History of Technology Discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism In the spring of 1900, a group of sponge divers took refuge from a Mediterranean storm…