Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

The current troubles have re-opened old, even ancient wounds. Greece—located on the eastern fringe of modern Europe—prides itself on being the “cradle of Western civilization,” the ...

Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient ...

The priestess of the oracle at ancient Delphi, Greece. [Image: John Collier/Gift of the Rt. Honourable, the Earl of Kintore 1893/Wikimedia Commons] ...

We owe to the ancient Greeks much, if not most of our own current political vocabulary.All the way from anarchy and democracy to politics itself. But their politics and ours are very different beasts.

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

Professional historians react to the first scenes of Jason and the Argonauts (1963), comparing the film's portrayal of ...

Ancient Greece, the civilisation responsible for all that we cherish about our cultural, political and intellectual life. The origin of democracy, theatre and theoretical mathematics, where poets and ...

The real ancient Olympic spirit: political, bawdy, and brutal We might find today’s Games too professional or too corporate. The ancient Greeks would have felt right at home.