According to a close examination of the evidence, scholars have shown that Athens continued to have kings much later than ...
A man beats a drum while behind him women dressed in white slowly advance, holding torches and singing hymns to Zeus. The ...
The sacred yellow serpents of Asclepius, the porieas, symbolized healing, renewal, divine power in ancient Greek medical and ...
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering events between 1200 and 760BC. This period has traditionally been viewed as a ...
In 1880, in the village of Chaironeia in central Greece, Greek archaeologists made a remarkable find: a largely undisturbed mass grave of 254 ancient soldiers, some of whom are buried arm in arm. The ...
A fifth-century anthology of Greek writing, originally collected by a father for his son, offers wisdom and insight into the human condition.