The speech is taken from the 'Anabasis of Alexander' (Book VII Chapter X), written around 130 AD by the Roman/Greek historian Arrian. Arrian had access to eyewitness accounts which are now lost ...

The devastating war between Hamas and Israel has made Gaza the subject of countless headlines around the globe, but how many of us knew that the city of Gaza also has a Greek past? After being ...

490-480 BC). The scene is thought to depict Hercules’ attack on the city of Troy. (Glyptothek, Munich). Credit: Egisto Sani, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The issue of who was considered Greek during the ...

Have you ever wondered why Greek mythology novels have maintained their popularity? The reason isn’t hard to see, since these action-packed stories depict immortal gods, goddesses, demigods, monsters, ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago.

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician ... Apollonius penned eight books in the "The Conics" series, with two books including an 11th-century Arabic manuscript, Turkish online news ...

He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic. By Lisa Brown A ...

LONDON (AP) — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse ... “In films and books, terrible things happen to those who smell mummified bodies,” said Cecilia ...

By Nicolas Niarchos A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer ...

The enduring appeal of Greek mythology: Of gods, heroes, and demons Take Stephen Fry’s books, for instance; he takes these ancient dramas and retells them with the flair of someone who can make even ...