ancient Athens

In September of the year 490 BC, just 42 km outside of Athens, an army of brave Greeks saved their city from the invading Persian army.

The division of people into various social classes is a persistent feature across civilizations and was no less the case in ancient Greece where social class was determined by several factors such as birth, wealth, occupation, and citizenship. Ancient Greek...

The Synoikia was an ancient Greek festival held in Athens between August 15 and 16 to celebrate the unification of Attica. The festival was also known as the Thesean Synoikismos and the Feast of Union. During the Synoikia, the...

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...