Yet the vast majority of these people were not citizens at all but slaves, tied to the land of their masters. Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

Philotimo’ dates back millennia, and although can’t be translated into a single word in the English language to this day, is ...

I traveled to Athens, Greece, for the first time since I was a little kid. Most of the trip was a dream, but some experiences ...

Galen said that by following Greek practice he never misdiagnosed or made a wrong prognosis. Progress in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in Ancient Rome was slow and patchy; doctors tended to ...

Citizens used the Alter of the Twelve Gods as a central point ... s most influential figures and immerse yourself in the monumental achievements of ancient Greece. Being able to walk these grounds ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have identified an “exceptionally well-preserved” marble statue of a Roman man that was uncovered ...