Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...

Wildfires driven by increasing winds and unprecedented heat surrounded Athens, Greece, this past summer, blanketing its ancient marble monuments and olive groves with ash and acrid smoke. These are ...

Alexander the Great accomplished so much so soon so young that he rightly earned the honor of heroic greatness. He was definitely a hero and a genius. His mother Olympias tried to convince him he was ...

Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...

From 1868 until his death twenty-two years later, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, devoted his life to finding evidence of the heroic Greek civilization described in Homer's books The ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not know ...

Source Had the Greeks not held off and defeated the mighty Persian Juggernaut, they would not have flourished and influenced the Mediterranean region and Western Europe, Rome, etc., the very basis of ...

Long before Athens dominated the ancient world or Sparta became a legendary military power, Greece passed through a mysterious age of collapse and reinvention. Following the destruction of the ...

Wildfires driven by increasing winds and unprecedented heat surrounded Athens, Greece, this past summer, blanketing its ancient marble monuments and olive groves with ash and acrid smoke. These are ...