Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

Greece’s Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, met yesterday with U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, for a working ...

Quincy High School's drama program presents "The Women of Troy," the tragic retelling of the Trojan War as experience by ...

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

STANDING next to a sniper on the frontline in Iraq, dark tourist Andrew Drury was offered the chance to take a shot himself.

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

An Ancient Roman erotic fresco painting has just been discovered by archeologists at a dig site in Pompeii. The stunning work ...

The NAU Theater Department’s rendition of “Lysistrata” was a hilarious romp through sex-deprived Athens, delivering laughs ...

These LEGO IDEAS sets imagine the soaring temples, libraries, and armies of ancient Greece in plastic bricks.

Tiny clay sculpture unearthed at Nahal Ein Gev in the Galilee is the earliest known figurine depicting human-animal ...