The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

"We share many cultural similarities and this can pave the way for closer interaction between the National Olympic Committees of Greece and Iran ... period before the Games is the perfect time ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The legendary ancient Greek courtesan Lais of Corinth was famous for her beauty that left no man resistant to her charms, and her extravagant demands and sharp tongue ...

The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, or LA28, stated in a media release. A water taxi for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics? One official says yes Among the ...

Typhoid fever, an ancient disease, continues to pose a significant threat in modern times. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, is rapidly ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

This course offers a systematic study of ancient Greek attitudes and practices relating to love and sexuality as reflected in history, literature, art, and philosophy, and against the background of ...