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 ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...

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

You’ll hear this everywhere you go in Greece — usually from the locals ... Fortifying myself with thick, aromatic Greek coffee and spanakopita — the homemade spinach and feta filo pie ...

The West once promised freedom, justice and reason. But after centuries of global dominance, war crimes and broken ideals, its future hangs in the balance. As nationalism rises and China stakes its ...

Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...

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 ...

It’s this progression that’s led to Athens revealing itself in layers. Think of it as an architectural moussaka. At the bottom are remnants of the ancient city dating back to the fifth century ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — As news filtered out of Egypt on Thursday (May 29) that a court ruling had called for nationalizing an ancient ... Greek politicians. Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All ...