Ancient Greek women had their own festival, Haloa, where they honored three deities with drinking, telling dirty jokes and carrying huge makeshift...

An international team of archaeologists determined the exact date of the destruction of the ancient Greek city of Scythopolis located in the modern...

Graffiti, produced by an inmate of an ancient Roman prison in Corinth, Greece, had a chilling message for captors, an archaeologist revealed recently....

Stoicism was one of the philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period, founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC

Apollonius of Perga (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος) who lived from 240 BC to c. 190 BC, was a brilliant ancient Greek...

The Greek philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd century AD) observed that our lives are divided between relaxation and exertion. For example,...

An ancient Greek “cancer-treating” amulet has been unearthed in the ancient city of Pisidia Antioch, located in the southwestern province...

It was once believed that Shakespeare was intimately familiar with ancient Greek tragedies and romances. However, that theory has long been...

In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings using a specially designed cooling pot called a psykter. The name comes from the...

An ancient Greek inscription on a marble slab that was recently found in storage at a Scottish museum is a “graduate school yearbook” with a list...