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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
In ancient Greece and Rome ... works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like ...
Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection
"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago ...
In Ancient Greece and Rome, who were the harpies, and why did they stink so much?
Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were often ...
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The Ancient Greek Scholar Who Shaped the Way We Organize Knowledge
Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...
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Ancient Greece: History and Documentaries About Ancient Greek Civilization, Mythology, and Art
In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...
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Giovanni Verri Mitchell Lecture
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BCMA’s “Flora et Fauna” explores the representations of nature in ancient Mediterranean art
BCMA IN BLOOM: Featuring objects ranging from a cauldron to a pair of earrings and focusing largely on depictions of the natural world in ancient Mediterranean societies, James Higginbotham’s new ...
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The Only Ancient Greek Theater on the Ionian Islands Is Finally Unearthed
A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...