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While Athens and Sparta dominate history book pages, there are lesser known ancient Greek city-states that played an important role in the spread of...

The efforts of Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias to employ Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity...

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...

The Curetes were purportedly the first inhabitants of the Greek island of Crete. They were mythical creatures, specifically legendary benign deities who lived prior...

Ancient athletes accomplished many astonishing feats of sport in antiquity. But what diet fueled these ancient athletes and Olympians?

  Contrary to war, theater was a place of light and allowed Greeks to face each other and learn of their history together in the...

The 4th century BC stadium of Ancient Nemea in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece, reopened on Wednesday to visitors after years...

As the world watches the gymnastics events at the Tokyo Olympics, we remember the ancient Greeks, who started the history of gymnastics.

The Olympics was about much more than honoring Zeus or the winners of the games. It was an organized effort to help the Greeks...

For ancient Greeks, every waterway was protected by nymphs. These were invariably ageless young girls who existed even before the Olympic gods and long...