Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

Although most people connect psychedelic drugs to the 1960s, they were used throughout much of human history, including in ...

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The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

LARNACA, Cyprus — Lyrical duelists in Cyprus spit rhymes in head-to-head contests, keeping alive a tradition known as ...

If you love theater, you may know the Odeon of Pericles, ... This ancient Greek city, formerly known as Poseidonia, thrived for two centuries between 600 and 400 BCE; ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.

The consequence was the downfall of Greece, and in her ruin was demonstrated the failure of ancient civilization. In a like event, nothing could save us, nothing could save modern civilization ...

An official traveler just back from Athens reported that one of the most baffling questions in Greece was red paint. Like nearly everything else in that country, red paint could not be had at any ...

Limited sources can make it difficult to determine the truth about many ancient Greek women. One famous example is Aspasia of Miletus, the mistress of Athenian statesman Pericles and mother of his ...