When was Ancient Greece ... The last period of Greek history is known as the Hellenistic period. This lasted from 323BC to 30BC when the Romans conquered Greece. The Romans respected the Greeks ...

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events. From Fate & Fabled ...

Roughly 3,500 years ago, a woman was buried in a royal cemetery in present-day Greece. Now, we can imagine what she might ...

In addition to the many magnificent historical monuments in Greece, the country boasts several unique sunken cities and ...

The history of Insurance goes back to ancient Greece as people employed insurance-like practices, predominantly within ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent ... This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the ...

You should read Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan, Roberts, and Tandy, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (Oxford)for a general overview of Greek history. You should also read (or ...

Archaeologists in Agrigento, Sicily just unearthed an ancient classroom where students listened to lectures more than 2,000 ...

Young men wore short tunics, while older men preferred ... Suntans weren't cool in ancient Greece, so women put white lead on their face to make their skin pale. White lead is poisonous, so ...

Although some varieties of silverbeet are named after and somewhat resemble rhubarb — such as rhubarb chard and rhubarb red ...

All ancient texts are read in English translation. Studies Greek history from 800 B.C. (the rise of the city ... Covers Macedonia's rise to dominance in Greece under Philip II and the reign and ...