James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his ...

The Milesian Tales was a collection of ancient Greek erotic literature written by Aristides of Miletus consisting of short ...

Yet at its most vulnerable moment in the year 335 BC, Thebes was utterly abandoned by its luminaires. Overconfidence and ...

Let’s pull back the curtain on the true lives of ancient Sparta’s most feared fighters.1. They Chose Their HeritageThe ...

Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own age ...

From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered an ancient sculptor's workshop which may provide a rare glimpse into what daily life was like during the Hellenistic period. Teams found the 3,000-year-old ...

For this unique event, I challenged my Greek friend and talented chef Nikos Moraitis to create a dinner menu using only ingredients found in ancient Greece. With my guidance ... Wealthier homes had ...

The term “Ancient Greece” or “Hellas” was used to describe ... Second, ancient democracy was not universal. Greek city-states thrived on slave labor. People deprived of personal freedom had no rights.

In Athens, where slaves were treated fairly decently (which sometimes ... with which it is connected by an unbroken line of historical development. Ancient Greece did not perish but transformed into ...