Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western ...

Ivy Pochoda’s novel recasts an ancient Greek drama as a tale of wealth, drugs and divine madness in a Mediterranean island’s ...

Delos, the sacred Greek island of pilgrimage, was transformed by the Romans into a major trade hub and slave market.

Nietzsche greatly admired Greek philosophy, which significantly influenced his ideas about life and human nature.

A decades-old archaeological mystery has finally been cracked: A strange sticky residue found in 2,500-year-old bronze jars ...

Behind the myth of the Minotaur lies the ancient Minoan civilisation – a culture steeped in ritual, rich in symbolism, and ...

Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his ...

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked ...

In a room of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the mountains of Sinai, a chance discovery in 1975 forever changed the study of ...

Before Zeus raised his thunderbolt and before the Titans carved their legacy into the heavens, there were the Primordials — the Protogenoi. These were not gods of sky or sea, but the raw elements of ...