The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Sitting at the café of the Technopolis cultural center in downtown Athens, cigarillo in hand, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, one of Greece's best-known actors, gives a quick digested history of Greece's ...

Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” offers clarity but little ...

The Pergamon Museum is a remarkable institution at the heart of Berlin, celebrating Greek culture and architecture.

A “myth of the past” is necessary to justify “contemporary preoccupations,” writes Oswyn Murray, an emeritus fellow at Oxford. This is a profound realization, and it leads the author to a rousing ...

Soufli, the historical Greek "City of Silk," was the distinguished honored city at the internationally renowned Silk in Lyon ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...