During our recent family trip to Greece, we had the opportunity to tour the legendary Acropolis and several lesser-known historical places in the heart of Athens. The city has many incredible ...

Discover 10 stunning historical places in Greece from the Acropolis to Delphi, Meteora, and Knossos, for unforgettable ...

How did ancient Greek hero Theseus unite all of Attica under the rule of Athens, and what was it like before he did?

Houses and businesses across the Greek capital incorporate—or obscure—structures spanning the city’s ancient, Byzantine, medieval and Ottoman eras Demetrios Ioannou A surviving section of the ...

THE Athens of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, which may properly enough be called the Periclean Athens, has been an extinct community for more than two thousand years, and yet it is more ...

This video explores the lives and works of ancient Greek historians who laid the foundations of historical writing. It highlights figures such as Herodotus, often called the “Father of History,” ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...

Every culture has an explanation about how we got here. The ancient Greeks were no different. The dramatic story of the origins of humanity in Greek mythology involves love, pain, and a hefty dose of ...

L.A.-based novelist Mark Haskell Smith has written two books of nonfiction — “Heart of Dankness,” about cannabis farmers, and “Naked at Lunch,” about nudists. His latest is in one sense a departure, a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Those who study Greek mythology may have noticed similarities between towns like Homer, Castor, Alexandria, Athens, Eros, Sparta, Urania and Arcadia, Louisiana, and the ...