The poet Byron, who died trying to fight in the Greek war of independence, movingly links this modern war with the ancient battle of Marathon, the earlier moment when Greece achieved freedom from ...

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

Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient ...

Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

We owe to the ancient Greeks much, if not most of our own current political vocabulary.All the way from anarchy and democracy to politics itself. But their politics and ours are very different beasts.

The priestess of the oracle at ancient Delphi, Greece. [Image: John Collier/Gift of the Rt. Honourable, the Earl of Kintore 1893/Wikimedia Commons] ...

The real ancient Olympic spirit: political, bawdy, and brutal We might find today’s Games too professional or too corporate. The ancient Greeks would have felt right at home.

During the end of Greece’s Bronze Age, between approximately 1700 and 1100 B.C., Mycenaean civilization flourished throughout the Peloponnesian Peninsula.