There's always been a deep-seated rejection of monarchy in Greece, favoring accountable, accessible leaders over distant, ...

The perpetrators broke into the business by forcing open the main entrance, tied the safe, and dragged it out of the building ...

It was conquered by and resisted empires and contributed to the development and spread of the Greek alphabet.   When Greece ...

The largest ancient cities offer more than just remnants of stone, but they tell the story of humanity's ambition. Discover them here.

Alexander the Great's vast empire was built upon his keen and continuously changing battle tactics, which depended on the enemy and terrain.

The story of the twelve labors tells the tale of Heracles’s journey from a sinful pariah to the ancient world’s most revered hero. To atone for a crime he committed while under the curse of his ...

Although Thebes was reportedly destroyed by Alexander the Great in ... it later became the second capital of the First Hellenic Republic and the Kingdom of Greece from 1827 to 1834—and notably, the ...

“Philip had lived in Thebes for a few years, and he brought new ideas from Greece. He introduced coinage. He turned this city into a politically functioning space, and he completely ...

Do you know the strangest thing that happened in ancient Greece that most people do not know about? From 378 BC – 371 BC, the Greek city-states of Sparta and Thebes were at war over influence over the ...

For a generation after Leuctra, Thebes was the dominant military force in Greece — an era historian James Romm calls “the age of the Sacred Band.” In the end, it took none other than ...

With their power centered around major cities like Mycenae, Thebes, Tiryns, and Pylos, the Mycenaeans peaked between 1400 BCE and 1200 BCE, when they occupied much of mainland Greece and gained ...