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

Professional historians react to the first scenes of Jason and the Argonauts (1963), comparing the film's portrayal of ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream attention.

Ancient Greece, the civilisation responsible for all that we cherish about our cultural, political and intellectual life. The origin of democracy, theatre and theoretical mathematics, where poets and ...

Ancient Greece was in many ways a brutal society. It was almost perpetually at war, slavery was routine and women could only expect a low status in society.

So, literally the centre of the ancient universe. People would travel from all over Greece to consult the oracle on issues such as marriage, business, philosophy, politics, and even military strategy.