Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

But how did one become a slave in ancient Greece? Well, you could volunteer. If you owed somebody money and were unable to pay off the debt, you could choose to become their slave until the debt was ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable hoard of gold coins thought to be more than 2,000 years old in an ancient Greek city. The coins—likely dated to the 5th century B.C.—were found ...