ancient Greek

Learning a foreign language will be compulsory from the age of seven in England's primary schools in an overhaul of the national curriculum, the education secretary is to announce. Ancient Greek will also be included in the state primary school...

It is already known that the first residents of Marseille in Southern France were Greeks, specifically from the ancient tribe of Phocaea. But now, archaeologists discovered an ancient Greek cemetery in the region that would shed light on the...

Almost 2,500 years later, the trial of Socrates is about to be repeated. This time Socrates is acquitted in a historical trial which is not a re-enactment but a modern perspective based on the current legal framework supplemented with...

It may sound unbelievable but a Greek-Canadian scientist is stating that the Ancient Greeks may have reached America years before the Spanish Seafarer Columbus did. Researcher of Aegean Scripts, Dr. Minas Tsikritsis, in the text by Plutarch “On the Apparent Face...

Oxford's Bodleian Library and the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica have announced the digitization of 1.5 million ancient texts and medieval books after receiving funds from the Polonsky Foundation. Among the material to be available online are Greek manuscripts and 15th and...

Τhe 33rd LA Weekly Theatre Awards, the annual critics' awards established in 1979 by the LA Weekly for outstanding achievements in small theatre productions in Southern California, were presented this year under the theme of the first ancient Greek Awards held in...

The most western ancient Greek colony documented in the Mediterranean is revealing its secrets through the development of a Document Centre on Greek trade and presence in Iberia, according to the creators of the Iberia Graeca centre. Empúries, formerly known...

A new 378-page book to be released this weekend is causing a series of debates on the issue of the first settlers of New Zealand. According to the authors of the book, Maxwell C. Hill, Gary Cook and Noel Hilliam,...

The discovery of the Temple of Demeter, that was found in ancient Greek ruins in Taman of South Russia last spring, has become the centre of attention among archaelogists and experts. According to the news website 'greek.ruvr.ru',  it is assumed that...

A new 3 week long educational programme allows Australian university students to visit Greece, in order to study and immerse themselves in the ancient Greek culture and its legacy. In cooperation with the Australian Archaeological Institute of Athens, the students...