ancient Athens

Agnodice was the first woman doctor of Athens in Ancient Greece whose story has been clung to by midwives for millennia. Her story is told by the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus in his Fabulae. By Abby Norman Women in...

Archaeologists are studying ancient Greek shackled skeletons found at the ancient cemetery in 2016 in the port city of Faliro in order to understand the rise of the Athens city-state. Faliro cemetery is one of the largest such sites that...

The Ancient Greeks practiced direct democracy. And they took measures specifically to ensure that ruthless, narcissistic people were unable to dominate politics. By Steve Taylor Ancient Greece was in many ways a brutal society. It was almost perpetually at war, slavery...

Ancient Athens is renowned to this day as the birthplace of democracy and cradle of philosophical debate, but few know the story of the city state's harshest lawgiver. Draco, also spelled Drako or Drakon, was Athens' first recorded democratic legislator....

Life in ancient Athens and Sparta, although both in Greece, was so different that the city-states seem completely foreign to each other.

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, Pericles must be the father of democracy.

The tales of ancient Greece remind the public that leaders must be able to plan for the future based on past events. Examples are evidenced through leaders' performance in the great plagues. By Joel Christensen In the fifth century BC, the...

Astounding ancient treasures unearthed under Athens, a great outcome from the recent construction work on Aeolus Street in Athens

A spectacular 3D video reconstruction of ancient Athens in the late 5th century BC takes the viewer over the city and pinpoints its monuments, markets, temples, and neighborhoods. The video made by Ancient Athens 3D and released in November presents...

Sex work in ancient Greece was performed by the hetairai, and those who worked their whole lives (until they were of no further use) in brothels. Other sex workers were sold into the role as children. By Marguerite Johnson When the...