Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

For over 2,500 years, the olive tree of the Acropolis has remained a worthy symbol of Athens, an undying and ancient ...

Hey Hunters, My dad and I sat down and debated our opposing views on Atlantis. He brought some interesting points to the table i hadn't fully focused on before, like where is pre-historic Ancient ...

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Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

Pea soup can be traced back to ancient times. The earliest evidence of peas is from the Neolithic era. Peas were found on ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

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Yet Plato without Athens is like Dickens without London. Plato lived and died an Athenian. The “common thread” in his work, Ms. Atack writes, is his commemoration of the life and unjust death ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

A woman poses for a photo in front Caryatid statues that prop up the porch of the 5th century B.C. Erechtheion temple, as at the background is seen smoke from a fire , during a hot, windy day at ...