Alexander the Great accomplished so much so soon so young that he rightly earned the honor of heroic greatness. He was definitely a hero and a genius. His mother Olympias tried to convince him he was ...

The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations that have shaped our modern world. From philosophy and democracy ...

All traditions are human inventions that last briefly or, sometimes, forever. Some of those innovations are extremely useful, and last, others vanish, only to be replaced by better alternatives. We ...

This posthumous collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner targets those who don't know much about history. Durant, who died in 1981 at the age of 96, is best known for the multivolume history of ...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. In the Fourth and Fifth Centuries BC, the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the ...

Monday 9 February marks the inaugural celebration of World Greek Language Day and tributes have been paid from across Europe ...