The Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides a synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods (1000–300 BC). The rich and diverse material culture of ...

When was Ancient Greece? How did ancient Greece begin? The first Olympic games and new discoveries How was Greece ruled? Activities About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the physical and cultural world are a key aspect of ancient history, ...

Her compound adjective “seagirt,” however, is anchored in Homer and our translated understanding of the ancient ... Greece.

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women ...

The Department of Classical Languages and Literatures regards its principal mission as instruction of students in the languages and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome. We believe that the study of ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough ...

The Department of Geography integrates social and environmental sciences with the power of geospatial analysis to understand our complex world and to plan a sustainable future. Diverse faculty help ...

A geography teacher in Coventry, England, found an ancient stone while weeding his garden in 2020, but the digging didn't ...