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 ...

Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

Ancient civilizations have always fascinated historians and the public. Because of how different the modern world is, we tend ...

Pupils at a primary school in Maidenhead created age-old coil pots as they covered the history of Ancient Greece last week.

Ryan Holiday’s books have sold millions of copies, he explains how a two thousand year old philosophy can help people with ...

A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work ...

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.

When was running invented? Runing is an instinctive movement that evolved as a survival skill for early humans. Read on to ...

As Rome's shadow looms over ancient Greece, one Hellenistic ruler makes his final stand for a dying empire in this epic conclusion by Ian Crouch.

Kern says that there was a time when discussions of classical studies in the West revolved largely around ancient Greece and Rome, but that studies of the ancient world ... that categorizes the study ...

It will shed light on the inexhaustible sources of inspiration, out of a pursuit of beauty, that ancient Greeks used to express their changing emotions and mentalities.