Alexander, unable to attack from the sea, built causeway stretching out to the island on a natural...
Greece
Athens was chosen as the Greek capital for historical and sentimental reasons. Ottoman Athens The first Ottoman...
Athens has been inhabited from Neolithic times, possibly from the end of the fourth millennium BCE, or...
Despite the scientific rigor of archaeology today, archaeological exploration is still an art and an adventure of...
Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral-poetic tradition by Minoan and Mycenaean singers starting in the...
Expressions of popular will were still constrained by an essentially oligarchic and aristocratic system. As a Classicist,...
Ancient Greek democracy had a number of practices which made it very different from modern democratic systems....
His works continued to be studied by professionals in international relations, political theorists, historians, and students of...
Memories of the past were an important guide to the future. This is in part why the...
In Athens, the cult of Athena Polias was the most important religious faction. Much like the Vestal...
Trading stations played an important role as the furthest outposts of Ancient Greek culture. By Dr. Colette...
Greek sanctuaries were perennially lively venues, each with their idiosyncratic myths and rites. Introduction For the ancient...
A brief tour of some of the astronomical ideas and models from ancient Greece. Introduction As the...
The most basic dog collar no doubt developed on its own in Greece, but the later ones...
A tyrant was a sole ruler in a Greek city-state, usually a usurper, who held power in...
In the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the authenticity...
The neat labels of Greek text that accompany and identify many of the characters on the vase...
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...
Exploring the establishment of the Duchy following the Fourth Crusade. Introduction The Duchy of Athens was a...
Odysseus’s natural leadership, smarts, and cool head are exceptional, and he is entertainingly deceptive and tricky. Introduction...
Ephialtes’ reforms are considered by Aristotle and modern scholars to mark the end of the Areopagite constitution....
The people of Athens commissioned Draco to devise a written law code and constitution, giving him the...
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...
Plato’s Nomoi and the Book of Deuteronomy dealt intensively with the fissures between rich and poor within...
Elites feared falling into poverty and tried to keep the evil eye away with laughable figures. By...
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...