The evolution of the term "barbarian" in ancient Greek thought—from cultural outsider to a symbol of uncivilized otherness—is ...

But what was the polis, exactly?The difficulty of translating the term is a clue to its complexity: Neither “city” nor “city-state” nor “republic” is fully adequate; the Greek word ...

The Greek polis culture was inherently counter-imperial, and even as the Greeks gained in freedom and wealth from their decentralized order, they paid in coordination costs.

Herodotos was an Ionian Greek. He was born in Halicarnassus / Halikarnassos, a Greek polis in Ionia, the coastline of Asia Minor facing the Aegean Sea.

Politics are clearly front-and-center today when it comes to Greece. European policymakers outside of Greece are pushing as hard as they can to get as much commitment in writing from Greek leaders ...

The Ancient Greeks conceived of man and his orientation to society very differently than we do today. Greek society, or what they called their polis, was the central animating focus of human life.

Prologue. The modern dream for the Getty Villa caught fire in Herculaneum or Herakleion, a small Greek polis on the outskirts of Neapolis (Naples) and on the lower slopes of Mount Vesuvius.