The ancient Greek statue of Apoxyomenos is an ancient Greek bronze statue depicting an athlete scraping dust from his body ...

To set forth to the world, in a bare three-hundred and fifteen pages, the whole achievement of Classical Greece is an ambitious undertaking, more so, one feels, even than a History of the World, ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Though rooted in the past, classics is a constantly evolving discipline. If you want to deepen your knowledge of the languages, literatures, art, archaeology, religion, philosophy, and history of ...

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical ...

How did the ancients see ageing? Many in the classical West saw old age as a disease. The prodigious Greek physician Galen thought otherwise. His treatise Hygiene, written around ad 175 and featuring ...

An aerial view of the Palace of Aigai following 16 years of restoration AFP via Getty Images On the day he was crowned king of Macedonia, Alexander the Great stood atop the intricately patterned ...

It’s just another way of “keeping it in the family.” A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max ...