A trip to Greece offers so much more than swimming in crystal-clear waters and visiting ancient ruins (though both are ...

Prologue The forced Christianization of Hellas / Greece in the fourth century and after wounded ancient Hellenic / Greek ...

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 ...

Greece was tarnished during the years of the financial crisis, but its soft power remains exceptionally strong even to this ...

Ancient Greek historians loved to write about the heroism of their countrymen in battle. Homer, Herodotus and their peers often described the valiant actions of Greek warriors engaged in combat and ...

In 1890, there were fewer than 100 Greeks living in the City of Lowell, but just 35 years later, Lowell was home to the third-largest Greek population in America — trailing only New York City and ...

From the first whispers of Greek mythology to the philosophical writings that shaped the Western mind, one belief remained constant: fate rules all. To the ancient Greeks, destiny was not a mystery to ...