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

During the winter solstice in ancient Greece, festivals were held to honor the gods Poseidon, Demeter, and Dionysus.

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of ...

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

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

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 ...

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 ...

Equal parts strange and terrifying: these are some of the many monsters that have haunted Greek mythology since antiquity.