The Greek urn may rank as civilization’s highest achievement: a curvilinear fusion of form and function. The art historian ponders the ancient Greek urn while sipping coffee from the modern Greek urn: ...
Apotheon is the game John Keats might have made if he were a game designer. In May 1819, John Keats left his job as an assistant surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London to dedicate himself to the ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Almyra's decor is a warmed-up version of a white-washed village in Greece, with florals dripping from the ceiling, Greek urns planted throughout, a floral wall handmade in ...
The voting instructions hung on the wall, printed in English and Spanish. “Ballot box” is Spanish urna — recognizably “urn.” Both English and Spanish get that word from Latin. And the Romans got the ...
WHEN A scuba-diving Vladimir Putin found two ancient Greek urns on the floor of the Black Sea this week, it seemed a startling discovery. In his latest spurt of televised heroics, the Russian prime ...