The Greek myth of Danaë and Perseus shaped ancient debates about the virgin birth of Jesus and early Christian identity.

Ancient Greek winter solstice festivals such as Haloa and Poseidon’s month blended astronomy, fertility rites, and the divine ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

The Greeks did not invent wrestling but they did bring it to a whole new level. They made it into an art form with their ...

Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...