The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization ... love and death, freedom and tyranny, justice and injustice. A sustained confrontation with classical texts not only heightens a ...

Marcaline J. Boyd's main teaching and research interests are the social and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome. Dr. Boyd is currently working on a book on tyranny that examines the ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states ... a city could only hope to do so for a short time as a 'tyrant' rather than a king.

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...