Yet the beach was not all bad for the Greeks. Because the beach acted as a bridge between sea and land, the Greeks thought ...

The transition of religions has left a lasting imprint, manifesting in instances where churches were constructed atop ancient ...

Ancient Greeks feared beaches, seeing them as barren and linked to death, unlike today’s peaceful coastal escapes.

The incredible skull of a young girl wearing a ceramic flower crown has been discovered in one of Greece's largest cities.

Can Evia’s mineral-rich waters, where the ancient Greeks once bathed, be a cure for exhaustion? Heidi Fuller-Love ...

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel ...

Ancient Greece had not known a natural disaster as devastating in more than 1,000 years, when an exploding volcano destroyed much of the island of Thera, modern Santorini.

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, wine ...

These motives became very popular in the contemporary Greek world, as evidenced by at least a dozen excavated examples of his black-and-crocodile vase, all made from the same mold.

Classical Languages & Literatures 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 ...