Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive today. About a quarter of those are gathered in an exhibit at the National ...

On the Hellenistic interest in the theatre, see Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age: 4-7. For further reading on art in the Hellenistic period, see John Onians, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age: ...

The Hellenistic period spans nearly 300 years, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to Augustus Caesar’s triumph over Cleopatra and Mark Antony in 31 BC.

Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, where evidence of artisanal activities had already emerged in the 1980s.The systematic ...

Greek art evolved to reflect the changing world of the Hellenistic period, exploring drama, realism, emotion, and decorative effects (1). The most important changes in the pottery of Greece during the ...

The movable finds from this year's excavations include unfinished marble sculptures, mainly of Aphrodite, clay heads of female figures, clay molds, seals, and a very large quantity of pottery.

The Hellenistic period begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., after leading expansions of his empire from Greece and Asia Minor through Egypt and the Persian Empire and as far ...

The sculpture dates back to the Hellenistic period between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C. Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a Hellenistic period sculptor's workshop on the island of Paros containing life-size marble statues. The site was first discovered in the 1980s when ...