While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the history of ancient Greece. New research suggests the cultural rise after the ...

Silver drachma minted in Massalia (Marseilles, France) circa 350-220 BC. Credit: Jastrow/Wikimedia Commons The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide ...

In Ancient Greece, love marriages were relatively rare. Most unions were arranged, and men often had affairs, highlighting a ...

an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard Experts added a carbon fiber pole to help anchor the "Apollo Belvedere," which had developed cracks along ...

The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and lasting until ...

This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a ...

From the death cults of Egypt to the fearsome yet sophisticated society of the Vikings, the ancient world was a surprising and challenging place. Explore the in-depth sections below. The ancient ...

This is a timeline of the presence of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece from 1204 to 1453. The history of Greece traditionally encompasses the study of the Greek people, the areas they ruled historically, ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...