Spyros Louis, the first Marathon winner of the modern Olympics. Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek ...

Greek runners Charalampos Pitsolis and Stamatia Noula won the 39th “Athens Marathon, the Authentic” (AMA), which took place ...

Officials face backlash over the handling of Peanut the squirrel's case, with calls for transparency from local lawmakers.

Hector Vasyli’s spirit is still alive. Credit: Monumentaustralia.org The patriotic spirit of 11-year-old Greek-Australian ...

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 ...

A 63-year-old Saudi man named Abdullah married 53 times over 43 years, seeking peace and stability rather than merely ...

Corsica, the fourth-largest island in the Med, was once a popular destination for the Greeks of Mani who fled to escape the ...

The 41st Athens Marathon kicks off with a historic race, celebrating athletic legacy and honoring the spirit of the ancient marathon.

Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, with her abode the sky, was perhaps the most resplendent of all the beings in the Greek pantheon.

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for Greece and the world.

Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and Rome.

The Alexis Zorbas character in "Zorba the Greek" is one of the most memorable in all of film history based on the Nikos Kazantzakis book ...