Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of ...

Did you think Junior's in New York City invented cheesecake? Think again, because this classic dessert goes way back to the ...

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 ...

A DISEASE first reported in Ancient Greek and Egyptian times is making a comeback, doctors have warned. The cost of living ...

Here's what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about the ... In his work titled Natural History, he wrote: We taint the rivers and the elements of nature, and the air itself, which is ...

In this installment, see the history of diet culture from Ancient Greece to Ozempic. With a new year comes an opportunity to start fresh and, for some Americans, that means losing weight. According to ...

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 ...

The Gandhara art persisted until the 7th century and had some influence on the Buddhist sculptures seen in China and other East Asian countries.

An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.