The English word "tantalize" comes from the iconic Greek myth of Tantalus, an ancient Greek king who faced a brutal ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

The first kind of love the Greeks defined was eros, named after the Greek god of carnal love and fertility. It represents ...

A 1,700-year-old school with walls covered in Greek text referring to a passage ... Imitate,” it says. The word “imitate” is ...

A joint team of Greek and Austrian archaeologists unearthed a massive ruined temple on a hill near Samikon in 2021 and identified it as a long-lost sanctuary of Poseidon. After several years of work, ...

Greek Placenta cake, also known as "plakous" in Greek, has a history dating back to ancient Greece and Rome. It ...

Alexander is played by Charlie Merriman, an actor who studied Ancient Greek and Latin at Cambridge University. With Barefaced Greek, he performs in plays and videos in Ancient Greek. The speech is ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC) invoked her with the words “Sing ... covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony ...

Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans ... Two millennia later, Pliny’s words seem directly relevant to us. In the modern world, concerns about the health of ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history.