Dodwell touches on the culture of contemporary Greece, covering also the Echinos ruins, the pass of Thermopylae, and the artefacts of Corinth. His detailed account, mixing travelogue with serious ...

To the ancient Greeks, southern Italy was part of their territory. It was called Magna Graecia, meaning "Great Greece".

Perfectly white statues isn’t the only thing people get wrong about Ancient Greece. In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd breaks down some more myths you might be curious to know ...

This article follows our family as we visit the Ancient Agora of Athens. Plus, learn about the history of this iconic ...

However, both Darius and his son Xerxes came unstuck in their efforts to defeat independent Greece and thereafter ... During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization was ...

Sumptuously illustrated in color and packed with information, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the first time in paperback. Offering fresh interpretations of ...

In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, also known as "Imago Mundi," is a significant clay tablet representing the oldest known map ...

and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece Josiah ...