The University of Wyoming prepares students for life in an increasingly global world. The Classics minor program provides students with an understanding of Classical Greek and Roman civilizations, ...

Wildfires driven by increasing winds and unprecedented heat surrounded Athens, Greece, this past summer, blanketing its ancient marble monuments and olive groves with ash and acrid smoke. These are ...

Long before Athens dominated the ancient world or Sparta became a legendary military power, Greece passed through a ...

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 Ancient Agora of Athens was once the political, commercial, and social center of ancient Greek life. Surrounded by ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...

In a quiet street in the heart of the Greek capital stands a massive sand-colored classical building, held by elegant columns as if ripped straight from ancient Greek civilization. This is the ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Wildfires driven by increasing winds and unprecedented heat surrounded Athens, Greece, this past summer, blanketing its ancient marble monuments and olive groves with ash and acrid smoke. These are ...