In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Imagine waking up in a coastal Greek village and walking to your terrace that overlooks the bay. Sunlight streams over whitewashed walls, the scent of sea salt and wild thyme fills your lungs, and the ...

The name Basil II is remembered throughout Byzantine history as one of its most powerful and ruthless Emperors in battle.

Checking into this luxury Grecotel resort, Stephanie Cockcroft found that the hotel made it easy for adult guests to relax ...

As Bulgaria prepares to welcome the euro on January 1, 2026, we look back at a year that saw our readers grapple with ...

The crackle of a campfire beneath a star-studded sky; the scent of cedar in old-growth forests; the thunder of a packed ...

Mr. Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of 'The Second World Wars: ...

The Odyssey is officially described as a “mythic action epic,” an adaptation of Homer’s foundational saga, one of the major ...

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

Historian Victor Davis Hanson warns that the same forces that collapsed Greece and Rome – debt, tribalism, decadence and declining virtue – are again pushing the modern West toward a new Dark Age.

Western civilization arose in the eighth century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...