Relief scene of Roman legionaries marching, from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE...
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Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Pnyx hill in Athens by Qwqchris. / Wikimedia Commons In the matter of the dēmokratia (‘People-Power’) that the Greeks invented (the...
Alcibades being taught by Socrates, by François-André Vincent, 1776 / Musée Fabre, Wikimedia Commons Socrates’ most famous students before...
The rise of Zeus. By E.M. Berens / 05.21.2014 Cronus (Saturn) Cronus was the god of time...
The battle of Leuctra was fought in 371 BCE and represents a turning point in Greek history....
Modern scholars have debated the exact nature of the Spartan krypteia, a group of young men who...
The Erechtheum, western side, Acropolis, Athens, Greece / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons Athens attained its Golden...
Spartan ruins / Photo by Ronny Siegel, Wikimedia Commons Spartan women enjoyed status, power, and respect that...
David, The Love of Helen and Paris (detail), Wikimedia Commons Helen’s homecoming was on the surface successful, but there was...
A fragmented painting of a woman bearing offerings, from the Mycenaean palace at Tiryns. (Carole Raddato/Wikimedia Commons) Researchers found...
The Death of Patroclus – Illustration from page 265 of ‘The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr...
By Judith M. Lamb Senior Thesis Hollins University The stories of an all-female warrior race had long...
Bust of Pericles bearing the inscription “Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian”. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original...
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in...
Aeon-Uranus, Gaea, Carpi, Horae and Prometheus / Greco-Roman mosaic, Damascus Museum The ancient Greeks had several different...
AÂ “prothesis” scene, the lying-in-state of the deceased on a bed, surrounded by his family members, some of...
Image from an illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Greek fire in use against the fleet of the rebel Thomas the...
Papyrus Bodmer VIII / Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Wikimedia Commons What did books look like in antiquity? In...
Use of a hand-siphon, a portable flame-thrower, from a siege tower equipped with a boarding bridge against...
Add MS 34654 / British Library The development of printing in the 15th century signaled huge changes...
OIympian Columns A fascinating group of manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries preserve a range of...
M0004635 Fragment of bas-relief in the from of a temple / Wellcome Library Ancient Greek philosophy and...
A detail of the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian acropolis. The building was constructed between 421 to...
White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece The Ottoman Empire captured Thessaloniki in 1430 and ruled it until 1912. ...
Olive trees on the Greek island of Anaxos. Cereals / Wikimedia Commons The prosperity of the majority...
Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
Achilles at the Court of King Lycomedes.  The sarcophagus had been sawed up to four plates which were...
A model of the agora of Athens at its maximum extension during the 2nd century CE. (Agora Museum, Athens) / Photo...
A map of the political structure of Greece in the Archaic Age (ca. 750 – 490 BC). / Photo...