New science suggests Delphis most famous figure the Oracle may have been influenced not just by gods, but by the mountain beneath her feet.

An Ancient Greek custom from Samos island allowed for theft during Hermes’ festival, linking piracy, ritual, and survival in ...

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 ...

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th century to the derivatives bubble of the 21st century. For many commentators, ...

In 2016, I wrote an article entitled These are the 7 Types of Love, which helped spawn several more articles on this topic. At the beginning of that article, I did say that the seven types of love ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not really be to blame. The 1876 painting Incendie Alexandrie by Hermann Goll ...

Many of us are heading to the beach to bask in the sun and unwind as part of our summer vacations. Research has shown that spending time at the beach can provide immense relaxation for many people.

As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is far too little to recognize everything mothers do. But my work as a scholar of ancient Greek literature has ...

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Many of us are heading to the beach to bask in the sun and unwind as part of our summer vacations. Research has shown that spending time at the beach can provide immense relaxation for many people.

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish. There’s a reason many of us know the word for “marketplace”(agora) in ancient Greek, ...