Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in the ancient town of Delphi. Most people lived in villages or in the countryside. Many Greeks were poor and life was hard, because ...

We are transported back to the year 500 BCE to meet Aspasia of Miletus - one of the most important women in Athens - to find out about everyday life in Ancient Greece. Our civilisation is known ...

The division of the population into distinct social classes varied across different city-states, kingdoms and polities in ...

The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of ...

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Anyone with Holiday as their surname is bound to have a sunny disposition, is what I told myself ahead of interviewing Ryan ...

Whereas the traditional center of intellectual life in Ancient Greece had been the symposium, the drinking parties held by wealthy aristocrats, in Athens the focus of intellectual enquiry began to ...

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

Foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys and tortoises. In Robin Waterfield’s translation of these ancient stories, animals are used to ...