The Pylos Combat Agate, a small limestone-encrusted seal, is the most exciting treasure yet to come from the tomb of a Bronze-Age Greek warrior. The Minoan sealstone found in the tomb of the "Griffin ...

I read Homer in High School. And slowly, in my college classes in ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, I realized Homer’s epic poems were at the very core of Hellenic civilization. The more I ...

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

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 ...

Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations that have shaped our modern world. From philosophy and democracy ...

Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...

c.3000 B.C.: The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations are bora in Crete and the Peloponnesos. c.1100: The Dorians, a Greek tribe, invade Greece from the north and put an end to Aegean civilization. 850?

1. Our Oriental heritage, being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning to our own day, with an introduction on ...

The winged serpent in Ancient Greece reveals a profound, long-forgotten link between distant ancient civilizations.