In Greece, the Tsakonian language sits at the center of a wider dialect debate over how Europe decides which historic forms of speech deserve recognition and protection. Spoken in parts of the eastern Peloponnese, Tsakonian is the only surviving...
A 1,700-year-old tomb discovered in Egypt has revealed a deeply personal Greek poem written by a son mourning his father and praising the wisdom and kindness that defined his life.
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman-era tomb containing a 19-line Greek...
Ancient Greek art is famous for its attention to the human body. Sculptors idealized proportion, poets praised shining eyes, flowing hair and powerful limbs, and athletes competed naked before crowds. But one feature appears often enough in ancient literature...
Damo is a relatively unknown figure of the ancient Greek world, who played a fundamental role when her father, Pythagoras, passed away.
There is not much historical information about her, but we do know that she lived around the 6th...
The ancient Greeks used a variety of weapons on the battlefield, each suited to a different purpose. Some were adopted as primary weapons, whereas others were carried into engagements as a backup.
Ancient Greek weapons used in the melee (close-combat...
Popanon was a simple recipe that held a significant place in the kitchens of the ancient Greeks.
Walk into a Greek kitchen today, especially during a holiday, and you’ll see tables crowded with syrup-soaked baklava, honeyed melomakarona, and golden loukoumades,...
One ancient Greek scientist proposed the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the Earth was a sphere.
Bion of Abdera is a relatively unknown historical figure of the ancient Greek world, who, nonetheless, became an...
Few symbols in human history have captured the imagination quite like the Gorgoneion—Medusa’s petrifying face, with her hair made of writhing snakes. Particularly in ancient Greece, it was regarded as a symbol of pure terror and fear, an apotropaic...
A recent linguistic study challenges long-held assumptions about whether early Greek absorbed features from the languages of ancient Anatolia. The research, led by Michele Bianconi of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, offers a fresh and cautious reassessment of...
