A 6th c. BC ancient Greek marriage contest, ruined by Hippocleides’ infamous drunken dance, led to the establishment of ...
The Ancients host Tristan Hughes and historian Roel Konijnendijk debate some wild theories about Ancient Greece, and Ancient ...
Athens’ victory at Marathon sparked fear that drove expansion and the fragile evolution of Athenian democracy.
What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...
Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...
A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.
I spent most of the past 15 years translating the complete works of Plato from Ancient Greek into English, and these ...
By Middle East Eye correspondent Sean Mathews, the book is a vigorous, evocative ramble through today’s Greece and its faded ...
Editor Gerald Owen pushed me to be fair in assessing ideas I disagreed with. He made me a better writer and a better person ...
Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...
Authoritarian regimes use architecture to reshape what the public believes by saturating public spaces with political symbols ...
This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...