Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

The way ancient Greeks chose their names is a fascinating story that reveals a lot about their ideals, beliefs and familial ...

Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and ... Over this, she wore a cloak draped from her shoulders, called a himation. This would be a thin material in summer and a thick ...

For cloak-and-dagger drama ... more than 5,500 Greek manuscripts and fragments have been found—more than any other ancient text. They total as many as 2.6 million pages, Wallace estimates ...

The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... of Apollo was discovered in the ruins ...

half-beast-like creature that preys on humans under the cloak of darkness. In fact, shapeshifters appear in mythology and ...

half-beast-like creature that preys on humans under the cloak of darkness. In fact, shapeshifters appear in mythology and ghost stories as far back as the ancient Greeks. “Monsters allow us to ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece ... received one cloak a year, had hard flesh, and knew ...

The Iliad and the Odyssey, the ancient Greek poems attributed to Homer ... which involved a huge wooden horse designed to cloak Greek soldiers inside that ultimately insured their victory.

A recent analysis by archaeologist Nicoletta Antognelli Michel of the Technical University of Darmstadt has led to a ...