Here are over 20 fascinating facts that highlight the ingenuity and complexity of Ancient Greece. The Greek alphabet, ...

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 ...

The division of the population into distinct social classes varied across different city-states, kingdoms and polities in ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered remarkable new finds at the ancient temple of Poseidon in Greece, revealing a much larger ...

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More excitingly still, they revealed that this wall was part of an ancient Greek settlement known as Epetion. Home to many a competent seafarer, ancient Greek city-states established colonies ...

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Greek Placenta cake, also known as "plakous" in Greek, has a history dating back to ancient Greece and Rome. It ...

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