Amazons of legend and very real Scythian tribes were mentioned in the same breath in ancient Greece....
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In mythology, the Amazons were daughters of Ares, the god of war. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction In...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
The movement toward oligarchy was led by a number of prominent and wealthy Athenians. Introduction The Athenian...
Athenian democracy was indeed a direct democracy, but not for everybody. By Georgios Mavropalias A sequence of...
One of the reasons humans prefer an organized government is that we’ve had them for thousands of...
Examining religious utterances such as curses, supplication, and prayer, as reflected in some passages from ancient Greek...
The role of priestess at Delphi was enormously influential. She was consulted on everything from warfare to...
Direct taxation was not well-developed in ancient Greece. Introduction The economy of ancient Greece was defined largely...
Power belonged to anyone who could harness the collective will of the citizens directly by appealing to...
The apogee of one’s training was to comprehend the laws and to be a vital member of...
For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. By Mark...
The cataclysmic eruption of Thera split the island of Santorini into three smaller ones. By Jenna Frawley...
The Galatian Celts retained their culture at first, continuing to observe their ancient religious festivals and rituals....
We can see how the world once was and glimpse now lost landscapes, flora and fauna. By...
Athenian prominence in the story of Classical Greece is no accident. Introduction As mentioned in the previous...
The religious practices of the Greeks extended beyond mainland Greece. Introduction Ancient Greek religion encompasses the collection...
Much of our knowledge of early medicine comes from Galen’s writings. Introduction Galen (129-216 CE) was a...
The Archaic Age saw the gradual culmination of developments in social and political organization in ancient Greece....
A mixed, cosmopolitan form of social and cultural life combining Hellenic (Greek) traditions with indigenous traditions emerged...
A mysterious object carved on a Roman gem reminds us that the smallest things hold clues to...
During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his allegiance on several occasions. Introduction Alcibiades Cleiniou...
The losses that Athens suffered in the Peloponnesian War show the sad consequences of the repeated unwillingness...
The scroll was discovered and painstakingly unrolled in 1795. More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the...
The epidemic killed upwards of 1/3 of the population; a population which numbered 250,000-300,000 in the 5th...
The details of Greek history in the Dark Age remain difficult to discover. Introduction The local wars,...
Helen knows both how to spot an ambush in the making and how to tell a great...
Greece, the ‘cradle of western civilization’, is home to a large number of spectacular sites from the...
The temple known as the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis of Athens between 447 and 438...
Agamemnon received heroic worship from the establishment of the sanctuary at Amyklai along with his consort Kassandra,...