The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide colonization continued through ...

After two memoirs and two academic monographs, Clune now has a novel, “Pan.” His narrator, Nick, is 15 and living with his ...

The Ephesus Opera and Ballet Festival drew in crowds from far and wide for the eighth year, for a celebration of music and ...

The name of the Isles of Scilly, near Britain's Cornwall, has long been a mystery, but one scholars argues for a Greek origin ...

One night in 373 BCE, the earth beneath the Greek city of Helike groaned and cracked. As homes crumbled and temples collapsed ...

For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

Ancient drama at an ancient theatre. That is what is happening at Curium and Paphos’ Ancient Odeon as the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama unfolds this July and August. Up next, as the ...

Exploring the parallels between Greek mythology and Indigenous Australian storytelling, this letter examines how both oral ...

Steve McBride collects ancient Greek and Roman coins from his homestead in Mobile, N.L. He says it can connect people today ...

“Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by Euripides. She discovered that play ...

An ancient Greek shipwreck was uncovered just a few feet below the surface off the coast of the Italian island of Sicily.

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...