Sumptuously illustrated in color and packed with information, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the first time in paperback. Offering fresh interpretations of ...

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back — not just from Marathon to Athens? Credit: MatthiasKabel/Wikimedia Commons/ Creative Commons ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

This book is the only up-to-date general introduction to ancient Greek sport now available in English. Its subjects include the origins and history of the Olympic games, athletic nudity, ...

Explore this timeline to see how philosophers and scientists ... lifetime to pass to the next generation. In about 500 BC, ancient Greek philosophers like Hippocrates and Pythagoras believed ...

New food inventions and innovations are made all the time, but the roots of your favorite sauces stretch back farther than ...

New evidence has led to an update of when an ancient ice sheet that used to cover large portions ... that formed after the Cordilleran ice sheet retreated to determine the new timeline. Scientists ...

Activity 1: Timeline of Ancient Egypt Activity 2 ... Child: But why don’t you use hieroglyphs anymore? Abdul: Greek and Latin have been used in Egypt for centuries as it is spoken by people ...

founder of the Mauryan Empire), but his campaigns cemented his reputation as one of the great conquerors of the ancient world. Later Greek leaders however conquered much of northwest India ...