Themistocles will always be lauded as the great general who pushed the Persians out of Greece with his strategy in the Battle ...

Greece's culture minister officially accepted the artifact, which was likely stolen from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s Ella Jeffries Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent ... dinner guests were always male and almost exclusively drawn from the aristocracy) enlivened the evening for the other guests with ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.

Whereas the traditional center of intellectual life in Ancient Greece had been the symposium, the drinking parties held by wealthy aristocrats, in Athens the focus of intellectual enquiry began to ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states ... A final reason behind the development of city-states was the Greek aristocracy, who acted to prevent any permanent ...