Ancient Greek treasures, dated from the Kingdom of Pontus, are displayed in a new museum in the city of Samsun, Turkey.

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 ...

Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

As I mentioned above, social conflicts between rich and poor constituted one of the most remarkable aspects of Greek history.

Course Description: The origins and development of classical mythology and heroic legend as religious belief, its relation to other mythologies, and its adaptation as literary and artistic symbol from ...

“G reek literature contains the germs of almost everything, so you can treat of almost all tendencies in treating of it,” the Hellenist Gilbert Murray wrote in the year 1900. One and a quarter ...

The professorship covers the subject area of "Greek History" with a focus on "Greek Antiquity and Epigraphy". As a subfield of the subject “Ancient History”, Greek History is part of the broader ...

Heather, the chair of medieval history at King's College London, is the author of Christendom: The Triumph of Religion, AD 300-1300 For the first millennium of Christianity’s existence, western ...