Ancient Greek sweets and desserts, from honey cakes to sesame treats, played a key role during festivals and in daily life.

Ancient Greek life consisted of celebrity scandals, lowbrow humor, and public graffiti, similar to today's world.

Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around nine hundred years. It is generally considered to be the ...

All traditions are human inventions that last briefly or, sometimes, forever. Some of those innovations are extremely useful, and last, others vanish, only to be replaced by better alternatives. We ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...

Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

On a food tour in Athens, I made an unexpected discovery at a small café — my first taste of a rose petal spoon sweet, a traditional Greek dessert. Served in a tiny glass jar with a miniature spoon, ...

Explore what it means to be human today by studying what it meant to be a hero in ancient Greek times. In this introduction to ancient Greek culture and literature, learners will experience, in ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday ...