In ancient Sparta, the Agoge prepared boys for a lifetime of military service with harsh training that emphasised strength ...

At the heart of the neoclassical city of Ermoupoli, the former home of a Greek freedom fighter is now one of the Aegean’s most desirable stays.

The daily life in Ancient Greece revolved around work, family, education, and religion, shaping a civilization that still influences world.

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Two months before Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in December 1995, Seamus and Marie Heaney drove through the winding roads of the Peloponnese with their friends, Dimitri and ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

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Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

Designers are giving museum worthy pieces a new life. By Jill Newman Rebecca Rau was skimming an auction house’s catalog last year when a bronze amulet from the ancient Central Asian region of Bactria ...

In the modern day, we may think of Feminism and equal rights between the sexes as a recent phenomenon, but in Ancient Egypt, women had a whole lot going for them. Able to own property, initiate ...