According to legend, Alexander the Great was the descendant of Greek mythology's Heracles. What was the supposed line of ...

The Lelantine War may have been one of the only wars in ancient Greece to involve multiple cities, but did it really happen?

We suggest former collaborators, like Tom Hardy, and new faces, like Léa Seydoux, to join Christopher Nolan's cast of The Odyssey.

Satyrs were creatures linked strongly with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, pleasure, and theater. These party-loving, ...

Common themes in today’s literature and theatre, such as courage, determination, jealousy, love and faithfulness, existed ...

From Greek-is.com: “The education system in ancient Greece was regarded as a foundational pillar of society, preparing ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in Athens. On a later trip to the excavations a ...

The analysis, based on 3,225,839 words contained in 118,952 sentences, shows that ancient Greek writers, and their readers, were not significantly different from modern writers/readers. Their ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

The analysis, based on 3,225,839 words contained in 118,952 sentences, shows that ancient Greek writers, and their readers, were not significantly different from modern writers/readers. Their ...