On the heels of this summer's Olympic Games in London, the Portland Art Museum has teamed with the British Museum to present "The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece," a collection of more than 130 ...

The Dallas Museum of Art recently opened a show titled, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece in Dallas, Texas. A model of Olympia is on display at the DMA on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

The Greeks saw their gods in human form and this was the key to seeing divine beauty in ordinary humanity. In other ancient cultures nakedness was shameful.

NEW THIS WEEK"The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece: Masterworks From the British Museum" is an internationally touring exhibit of more than 120 objects including "iconic marble and bronze ...

The British Museum courts with controversy yet again with their latest major exhibition. Hot on the heels surrounding the debate of returning the Elgin (or Parthenon Marbles, as the Greeks would ...

Nude sports originated in ancient Greece. At that time people believed that the human body is one of the most beautiful things in nature, and the best vehicle to demonstrate human self-confidence ...

"In ancient Greek funerary art, the handshake is a gesture of final farewell, with the departed extending his or her right hand," she says.