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

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

However, in a portent of its later fate, the first great earthquake in recorded Western history took place in Antioch ... has begun to expose large portions of the ancient city, which are frequently ...

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 ...

It is hard for us to exaggerate how important the Olympics were for the Greeks. Paul ChristesenProfessor of Ancient Greek History at Dartmouth College, USA “The classic example is that when the ...

As Greek mythology goes, the universe was once a big soup ... Chincha and Nazca Valley geoglyphs Podcast: History Fuzz: Episode 02: Professor Stephen Lekson. Chaco Pt 1. America's most controversial ...

[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] The varied versions of aesthetics that defined the material and spiritual lives of ancient Greek people from the Neolithic age to the end of Antiquity will be ...

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 ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...