The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

ATHENS, Greece — For visitors to Athens, the ancient Odeon of Herod Atticus is the must-see theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends have ...

This year’s Breckenridge production includes 39 children telling the story set in ancient Greece. As they prepare for the Olympic Games, everyone from the Greek gods and philosophers to the ...

The fact that Israel has now launched successive rounds of air assaults on Iran and in turn incurred losses of its own – as of June 17, at least 24 Israels have been killed in I ...

Underwater archaeologists have discovered remnants of a sunken military warship from the second century BCE in the Egyptian bay of Abū Qīr, located 32 kilometers northeast of Alexandria. The ...

The first is ΟΔΥCCEOC, the Greek genitive (i.e. possessive or attributive) case of Odysseus which suggests a writer referring to the location as the hero’s palace or temple.