The Greek isle of Delos ... the birthplace of Apollo, the sun god, and his twin sister Artemis, the goddess of the moon. By the ninth century B.C.E., Delos had been established as an Apollonian ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Delos was once the religious and political center of the Cyclades; Greek legend says that this was the birthplace of Apollo ... also steles and statues from Delos ...

The ride from the largest Cycladic Greek island of Naxos (430 sq. km.) to perhaps the smallest one, Delos (3.4 sq ... Greece to pay their respects to Apollo, the god of balance, light and harmony.

The stone statues once gazed ... “sometimes represented the god Apollo.” Apollo was “one of the most widely revered and influential of all the ancient Greek and Roman gods,” according ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain ... have been found on the Greek island of Delos, some of which are inventories from ...

The study’s Danish author, classical archaeologist Cecilie Brons, analyzed ancient texts and artwork, collecting evidence that in ancient Greece and Rome, it was common to anoint a sculpture ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

THESSALONIKI, GREECE—According to an ArtNet News report, a marble head depicting Apollo, the ancient Greek ... The 2,000-year-old sculpture shows a young man with curly hair and a laurel crown.

Delos is a small ... millennium B.C.E. It later became known as an important site in Greek mythology: the birthplace of Apollo, the sun god, and his twin sister Artemis, the goddess of the ...