Scholars have regularly argued that the Founding Fathers of the United States were well versed in the history and thinking of the ancient Roman and Greek world, as well as the thought and history of ...

The Decapolis (“ten cities”) was a group of cities in the Middle East where ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish cultures ...

A key factor in trade at ports in the ancient Greek world was the presence of sanctuaries that ensured safe exchange.

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. The ...

Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...

The major objective of the publications programme of the British School at Athens is to publish work by those conducting research using its facilities. The Annual therefore includes articles of short ...

Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...