Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

Hoplites depicted in the black and red-figure pottery styles. Credit: George E. Koronaios / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Jona Lendering / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons Xenophon and the Ten Thousand The most famous ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating ...

Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 BC - after 510 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. Some historians consider him one of the pioneers of the early Greek philosophy, mathematics and natural science. He is ...

Greece is home to one of the most important collections of ancient monuments in the world. These landmarks, built in antiquity, tell amazing stories about some of history's earliest civilizations.

Ancient Greek vases have revealed the hidden names of Amazons, mythology's warrior women, in a report deciphering ancient languages unspoken for millennia. In the forthcoming study of pottery ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo. The site, known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is located in a remote valley in ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

Archaeologists recently made numerous "spectacular" discoveries at a long-forgotten temple to an Ancient Greek god, according to local officials. The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus shared a ...