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

Only a minority of Greek and Roman children received an education. Those few found themselves in a strange world of poetry and pedantry.

Mount Ida on Crete, known to locals as Psiloritis, is the location where, according to Greek mythology, Zeus was born.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

Classical Greek texts feature many examples of mortals acting against advice and experiencing adverse consequences, such as Icarus flying too close to the sun or Pandora opening a box containing evils ...

A fossil found in Georgia is helping scientists answer a big question: why do humans have such a long childhood? Compared to ...