On the Athenian side was a rather colourful strategos, or general. This relatively young man's name was Alcibiades, and his ...

Study reveals how olive oil shaped Greek mythology, daily life, and philosophy for 7,000 years, from ancient Crete to ...

Take a virtual tour of the Acropolis of Athens, one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Explore the ...

The Batrachomyomachia (“The Battle of Frogs and Mice”) is the only surviving complete  ancient Greek epic parody of Homer's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tourists at the ...

As a Navy meteorologist, I couldn’t come across a better discovery than the world’s first meteorological weather station. The ...

THE Athens of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, which may properly enough be called the Periclean Athens, has been an extinct community for more than two thousand years, and yet it is more ...

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, located at the foot of the Acropolis and one of Greece's most famous ancient theatres, will ...

Something unexpected happened in the summer of 2021. Suddenly, out of nowhere — and from locations near and far — everyone seemed to be heading for Athens. And why not? Whether by necessity or ...

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets ...