According to Plato, love’s aim is not to complete us, but to inspire us to grow and become the best human being we can be.

Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

The Ancient Greeks had eight words that corresponded to different types of love: The first kind of love is Eros, named after ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

Boy names may not be top of mind when you think of flowers, but there are plenty of flower-inspired names perfect for a child of any gender.

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on ancient racism, as we look if the Ancient Greeks were racist, showing what is in the ...

Much of what is now considered Greek ingredients have their roots far beyond its borders. The New World changed the Greek ...

Archaeologists have discovered a mask mold believed to depict Medusa at Valley of the Temples Archaeological Park in in Sicily, Italy. The park is open to visitors on weekdays.

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled uneasily with the realities of power.

The University of Exeter put a trigger warning on two classic pieces of ancient Greek literature, Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey,” for what it calls “distressing” content.