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 ...

This book is the only up-to-date general introduction to ancient Greek sport now available in English. Its subjects include the origins and history of the Olympic games, athletic nudity, ...

Greece has some true hidden gems when it comes to its ancient villages. Tourism has yet to spoil these towns that are steeped in history.

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

With an estimated 25 million people playing it worldwide, bocce is considered to be one of the world’s most popular sports.

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 ...

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

The Golden Ratio — 1.618 (ϕ) : 1 — is an ancient Greek mathematical equation that ... it would make him “the most handsome James Bond in the history of the role,” according to science.

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