The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire and even of the Roman Republic. Its political ideology was fundamentally secular and grounded in the ancient Roman republican belief ...

In the Byzantine Empire of the medieval period, it was still olive oil, wine, wheat, honey, and fish sauce that were traded the most. In ancient Britain, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the Arabian ...

Excavations of an ancient Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of Fournoi near Samos, Greece are bringing new finds onto the ...

Prominent Universities across the world continue to offer their students the option of doing Greek Studies, as it remains a ...

we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry soldiers who guarded the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire and were recruited from the peasants of the border provinces. Today, ...

Distinguished intellectuals of Mystras, amongst them, Georgios Gemistos Plethon, the Neoplatonist philosopher, aroused the interest of the West for the interpretation of Platonic philosophy and the ...