Male beauty and strength were highly valued by ancient Greeks, and they were celebrated at a special beauty pageant known as ...

It is called a dark age because nobody knows much about what happened - all written language and art ... ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece ... Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Photograph ...

The Apollo Art Auctions company ... wrote that such helmets were used by warriors from many other ancient Greek city-states, including Sparta. The object is "a rare and exceptionally well ...