Among the golden pages of the history of Ancient Greece there are pages blemished with the acts of traitors, men who betrayed ...

Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

Here we have evidence of Greeks on Anatolian soil, but can we find concrete proof for Homer’s Trojan War? Sadly, no. At least not yet. The destruction of Troy layer VIIa fits well into Homer’s ...

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, that today attracts thousands of religious pilgrims.

In this video, we will look at the factors that caused civil war within ancient Greece and the technologies, tools and ...

The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

Riot police have scuffled with medical staff at an Athens public hospital, after dozens of staff gathered to protest the ...

In any event, Perdiccas and his brothers arrived in another part of Macedon and settled close to a site called the “Garden of Midas.” Perdiccas is recognized as the founder of the Argead dynasty, and ...

Explore Thessaloniki's rich history, including its Holocaust memorial honoring the city's Jewish population and Armenian ...

I refer to the Greek “world,” because it was in no way united as the modern state of Greece is. A complex, rich, and diverse history. Greekness was what brought most of the fiercely independent Greek ...

When it came to penning the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the planning all came before the aftermath of the film’s eventual polarizing release. And by chance, Matthew ...

Were the ancient Greeks guilty of racism as we understand it today, or did they see difference in another way? In this video, we examine the surviving sources, from philosophy to literature, to ...