The Archaic Age saw the gradual culmination of developments in social and political organization in ancient Greece....
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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,...
In reading Plato as Plato-the-Philosopher, one misses the nuances of Plato-the-Artist. Introduction The Dialogues of the Greek philosopher Plato (l. 428/427-348-347 BCE) have...
The Peloponnesian war had been dragging on for 25 years, and the military situation was getting progressively...
Neither the course nor the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War was foreseeable at its outset. Of the...
They were considered the youthful bestowers of beauty in all its forms. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Graces (alsoCharites, sing. Charis)...
What the epigraphic and archaeological evidence have shown. For centuries, worshippers of Artemis flocked to the ancient...
Take a tour through Melbourne with a Greek lens and discover the rich Hellenic influences that shape...
This was a great center of learning and early Christian scholarship during the Roman period. By Mark...
A substantial amount of the artifacts in the Thracian archaeological record comes from diverse cultural and stylistic...
The statue of the goddess of victory was excavated in 1863 CE on the Greek island of...
The Lacedaemonians abandoned the grand strategy they had articulated early on. Introduction In ancient Lacedaemon, as in...
Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity.[1] Agricultural...
While in the Balkans, Celtic tribes managed to conquer several Greek, Illyrian, and Thracian armies, carving out...
The Aeneid is Virgil’s masterpiece that he completed after eleven years of intensive work. Originally published by...
Greek temples are one of the earliest well-defined expressions of what we now recognize as the Western...
Geophysicists use sound waves to build a picture of the magma and rock beneath this active volcano,...
Remainders of Crete’s extraordinary past are scattered all over the island. Introduction As the cradle of European Civilization and...
Darius took personal command of his army for this encounter and led them to a resounding defeat....
It was here, against all odds, that Alexander defeated the forces of the Persian satraps of Asia...