Indirect communication is a central feature of the lying tales Odysseus tells. In book 13 of the...
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Apart from some futile attempts to recapture their freedom, for well over a century the Greeks remained...
Trading stations played an important role as the furthest outposts of Ancient Greek culture. By Dr. Colette...
In the architectural void of a new nation, he borrowed from ancient Athens to express America’s democratic...
2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, explaining lunar...
Two alternative conceptions of government – a republic and an oligarchy. By Friedrich Schiller18th-Century Philosopher and Historian...
Hippocrates used the “four humours” theory to explain the origins of these infections but understood the environment’s...
Given his positive reference to Genesis, Longinus has been assumed to be either a Hellenized Jew or...
Gorgias was a native of Leontini, a Greek colony in Sicily, which is often called the home...
Museum and academic scholars are key players in the fight for contextualized and equitable perspectives of black...
Achilles was too proud and bad-tempered for his own good, and his reckless rage would cost both...
Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
Thrasybulus was helping his ally Periander, the tyrant of Corinth. By Sergey M. ZhestokanovProfessor of ArchaeologySt. Petersburg...
In archaic and classical Greece thrones were reserved for the gods and by extension, their priests and...
Cassander embarked on an ambitious plan to control the region and solidify his power in Macedonia. Cassander’s...
Looking past a plague at how a massive government spending plan went badly awry 2,500 years ago....
Ancient Sparta could be considered the most fully-realized form of gerontocracy that any state has ever implemented....
The ‘Hippocratic’ four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals, and home remedies. The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines,...
Thirty of the Achaeans’ best warriors hid in the Trojan horse’s womb and two spies in its...
The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of...
The Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that...
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Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The Hippocratic philosophy on health care provision applied standards and ethical rules that are still valid today....
Pausanius is best known for his ten-volume work, Description of Greece, detailing his travels through the country,...
Many Ancient Greek fortifications connected a city to another site – a citadel or a port. The...
At school, we have all studied the amazing history of the two most important city-states in Greece,...
Deciphering Linear B, the earliest form of Greek, was a history-changing achievement, but decoding the older Linear...
Meet one of the greatest of all the characters in ancient Greek drama. Elektra’s Story To understand...
The lure of Aphrodite still resonates in Western popular culture today. Introduction Aphrodite is the ancient Greek...