To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

Were the Ancient Greeks racist? In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Ancient Civilizations series, we explore primary ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

Yet the surge of interest in all things ancient Greek is part of a much older phenomenon. Again and again, in troubled times, we in the West have turned to our oldest stories for answers.

Greek Life.; THE LIFE OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS. With Special Reference to Athens. By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Greek in Harvard University.

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...

The conflicts that followed brought the Persian and Greek worlds closer together and set the stage for a drastic reshaping of the ancient world.