Athens was made for history lovers. It is Europe’s oldest capital city, has one of the 12 wonders of the ancient world, and a ...

Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

If you’re an American traveling to anywhere in Greece, there’s a very good chance that your travels will take you through Athens – whether you like it or not. We’re asked all the time whether or not ...

THERE were many ancient manuals describing Athens, her local traditions and her monuments. Of them all, one only, and that by no means the best, has descended to us. It nearly fills the first book in ...

For visitors to Athens, the ancient Odeon of Herod Atticus is the must-see theatre at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends have performed. And for the ...

Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory. The cemetery in Sidiro, a small Greek village near the ...