The Parthenians, illegitimate children of Sparta's women born during war, became the founders of the esteemed Greek colony of ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday to the Milan Cortina Winter Games — missing a ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

The Greek Civil War ends in 1949—in fire, blood, and betrayal. This episode explores how the Communist Democratic Army was defeated, why Yugoslavia and Tito cut off support, and how American-backed ...

Framingham resident Alec Karys discovered a diary his father kept as a soldier during the Greco-Turkish War, decades after his father's death. The diary revealed a poetic and sentimental side of Karys ...

When it came to penning the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the planning all came before the aftermath of the film’s eventual polarizing release. And by chance, Matthew ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Demonstrators calling for an end to the war in Gaza protested the arrival of an Israeli cruise ship on another Greek island Tuesday – the third such protest on Greek islands in ...