Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: The archaeological site of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii is seen, as it reopens to the public with social ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The love story of Psyche and Eros − also known as Cupid − has survived since the days of Rome and Greece. Bettman via Getty Images ...

For ancient Romans, many of the gestures now associated with Valentine’s Day would be unfamiliar, if not completely puzzling. Love and desire were not confined to a single day, nor expressed through ...

Tarquin and Lucretia (detail), by Titian. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Titian/Public domain Sex, said the Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, ‘is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia To love and be loved is something most people want in their lives. In the modern world, we often see stories about the ...

Sex, said the Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, ‘is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus. In Rome, female infants were much more ...