Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with the difficult emotion of love– in all its glory and calamity – and come out the other side unharmed.
By Konstantine Panegyres
Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer...
Archaeologists and scholars have spent nearly a century investigating what happened to Alexander the Great and where his tomb is located. Some argue that his tomb is in Macedonia, northern Greece, while others claim it is in Alexandria, Egypt,...
Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. However, the real surprise isn’t just where the fragment was found. It’s how...
The ancient Greeks revered the mother and honored her as the giver of life centuries before Mother’s Day became popular in the West. Mother Earth (Gaia), wife of Uranus, was the personification of nature that gives birth to everything,...
Ancient Greeks encoded the secrets of their civilization in ways hidden in plain sight, shaping a legacy that endures through millennia.
By Ryan Kralik
Many of civilization’s most recognizable roots can be traced to Greece. The stones of the Acropolis, the...
The philosophical dialogue, The Republic, was written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato around 375 BCE. It describes his vision of an ideal and just society that would be ruled by philosopher-kings.
Over two thousand years later, this work on...
The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics and especially geometry.
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
The second century BC was a time of the golden age of Greek science, and civilization centered in the kingdoms of the empire of Alexander...
There is a massive logistical shift of US military power toward Greece underway, and it is happening largely under the radar. While much of the world is absorbed by daily diplomatic dramas and the unfolding consequences of the war...
From the moment I got on that shabby plane from Ariana Airlines, Afghanistan's national carrier, in the wee hours of a humid July night exactly twenty years ago, I realized what was in store for me in that far,...
Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? After years of extensive research, in conjunction with new archeological evidence, and with the aid of satellite technology, Christos A. Djonis credibly reveals that Plato based his story of Atlantis on a...
"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religions, our arts have their root in Greece," Percy Bysshe Shelley.
By Demetri Kantarelis, Ph.D. Professor, Assumption University
"Hey, we are all Greek!" I mean that, figuratively, we, all inhabitants of Earth,...
Greece joined NATO on February 18, 1952, but its relationship with the Alliance has been shaped by Cold War tensions, regional rivalries, and shifting geopolitical priorities. From its early postwar instability to its current status as a key contributor...
The efforts of Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias to employ Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity reflect the greatness of ancient Greece / Hellas.
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Alexander accomplished so much so soon...
UNESCO studied the history of the Greek language and recognized its universal importance. The UN organization highlighted the virtues of Greek and its millennia of continuity, enriching science and humanities all over the planet with vocabulary, concepts, and meaning.
By...
