Book of the Week. Using historical figures from ancient Greece to present day, historian Naoise Mac Sweeney interrogates the ...
A History Written in Stone and Clay The temple’s history spans several centuries and reflects the changing tides of Greek ...
Calling all history buffs! Add this underrated town near Naples to your bucket list to see ancient Greek ruins in an ...
Why is the ancient Greek man Pheidippides, the greatest runner in world history after whose exploits the concept of the marathon was created, remembered for running the 26 miles (42.195 km) from ...
A joint team of Greek and Austrian archaeologists unearthed a massive ruined temple on a hill near Samikon in 2021 and identified it as a long-lost sanctuary of Poseidon. After several years of work, ...
To this day, the "Holocaust of Arkadi" remains a universal symbol of self-sacrifice for freedom in the face of barbarism.
This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a ...