While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

ShareHistory teaches us that there were philosopher-kings in Ancient Greece. Coming nearer home, here in Nigeria, there are justice-kings in the mould of the His Royal Majesty, the 85-year-old Emir of ...

Overall, “Lysistrata” is an empty comedy. Satirical elements regarding the power imbalance between men and women in ancient ...

The ancient philosophy of Aristotle is aiming to transform life inside UK prisons through a classical education made ...

An AP photographer captured a visual story about Father Spyridon, the monk depicted in the image, using the clouds to give ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...

He studied medicine in Montpellier, France, but his love of letters and philosophy led him on an intellectual ... and the “Hellenic Library” The publication and commentary of ancient Greek texts was a ...

Ukraine says it's captured Chinese citizens fighting for Russia. See the video ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

Greece has a long rivalry with its former imperial neighbor over sovereign rights in the island-dotted waters that separate them. Despite being NATO allies, their forces infamously came close to ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, anybody who could read had access to public libraries. Rules of use varied: For example, literary sources imply that the Ulpian Library in Rome was a borrowing library ...