Major discoveries, from ancient tombs to submerged cities, reveal the incredible advancements of Greek civilization.

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece provides a wide-ranging synthesis of history, society, and culture during the formative period of Ancient Greece, from the Age of Homer in the late eighth ...

This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480 – 323 BC), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered ... the meeting place of Classical Greek cities. A guest might even bring one of his own friends along, too, without a formal invitation, a role ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... they fought off the invading Persian army. This period is known by historians as the Archaic period ...

Standing on a bastion at the entrance to the Acropolis Hill of Athens is a masterpiece of the Greek temples, that of Athena ...

Calling all history buffs! Add this underrated town near Naples to your bucket list to see ancient Greek ruins in an ...

The Department of Classical Languages and Literatures regards its principal mission as instruction of students in the languages and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome. We believe that the study of ...

The most well-preserved Temple in Greece is found at the Ancient Agora. It is the Temple of Hephaestus. Over 365 modern houses were destroyed as part of the excavation of the Agora. During the ...

Classical studies scholar Liu Xiaofeng says that the academic progress seen in the study of Western classics will surely help ...