The scientific name Chlamydoselachus anguineus derives from Greek roots: “chlamys” (frilled), “selachus” (shark), and the Latin “anguineus” (snake-like), aptly describing its distinctive appearance.

While other actors wore the era's typical chlamys cloak and tunics, sporting scraggly beards and carrying bowls and wooden staffs. Christopher expertly directed his cast and crew on set ...

Most statues represent deities, athletes or important personalities in ceremonial or public contexts. On such occasions they wore the traditional chlamys, or peplos, which were usually light clothes.

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Color reconstruction of Alexander the Great wearing his “chlamys” in the battle between the Greeks and Persians on the Alexander Sarcophagus. Note the eight-ray golden star discs depicted on his ...

One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to fill with honored guests. They had come from across Greece and the Balkans to ...

In his “Petition to be buried on the beach at Sète,” Georges Brassens, another native of that windy little port town south of Montpellier, asks the “good master” Paul Valéry to pardon his proposal for ...

Botticelli's Primavera is the very icon of the beautiful season, the most famous painting in the world dedicated to the flower season. Yet, it is a work whose meaning still eludes us. Dating, of ...

After a long week, the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended Thursday night with Dev Shah coming out on top. The Florida native weaved through words such as "aegragus," "rommack," and "tolsester ...

The Cathedral of St. Martin in Lucca, with its centuries-old history behind it, becomes a place of preservation of wonderful works of art, from altarpieces to the highly venerated statue of the Holy ...

As a result, after 30 years of being unable to harvest, next month the Arctic Pearl (pictured above) will leave for the Arctic Ocean, and the Arctic Scallops (Chlamys islandica) fishery will reopen.