Ctesibius was a pioneering inventor of ancient Greece whose work in pneumatics and hydraulics shaped technologies still in ...

Constantine Panegires, a researcher in historical philosophy at the University of Melbourne in Australia, explains, 'What did people in ancient Greece and ancient Rome think about mental health?' ...

Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

Ancient Greek thinkers made big discoveries ... They asked, “What is a good life?” and “How do we think?” Aristotle studied plants, animals and rocks. He carried out experiments to ...

Already in the late fifth century B.C., ancient Greek doctors recognized that our ... an anonymous doctor wrote that our habits about our thinking (as well as our lifestyle, clothing and housing ...

From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and ...

Ask most people about the origins of the marathon—a race covering 26.2 miles of terrain—and you will likely hear about how Pheidippides, an ancient Greek courier, ran 26 miles from the town of ...

In many ways, they’d view the prospect as absurd. In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves; instead, the heart and soul of the festival was the experience ...