I read Homer in High School. And slowly, in my college classes in ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, I realized Homer’s epic poems were at the very core of Hellenic civilization. The more I ...

An undated handout picture released by the Greek Culture Ministry shows a clay plaque discovered in Ancient Olympia with an engraved inscription depicting thirteen verses from the Odyssey's 14th ...

The epic poems of Homer inspired the Greeks for millennia. The first epic, the Iliad, tells the story of the Trojan War, according to which, about hundreds of Achaean / Greek ships from all over ...

ATHENS, Greece — Road construction on the western Greek island of Lefkada has uncovered but heavily damaged an important tomb with artifacts dating back more than 3,000 years, officials said on ...

The Greek goddess Chimera, was a monstrous composition of disparate parts that embodied an ancient fear of females.

Archeologists from the University of Cincinnati have unearthed two Bronze Age tombs dating back to the time of Mycenaeans, 3,500 years ago. "It has been 50 years since any substantial tombs of this ...

Ancient Greece isn’t a place to be glimpsed only in books, said Jeannie Ralston in National Geographic Traveler. A four-day road trip west of Athens can make any visitor witness to a Bronze Age–palace ...

The origin of the sea anchor as we know it today is unknown, nevertheless its invention most likely have taken place in ...

“Look, Corinthian columns!” Not exactly the sort of excited whisper one would expect to hear from fifth graders on a trip to the state Capitol building. However, in the fifth grade Waldorf curriculum, ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Greece have discovered what they believe to be the oldest known extract of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey". A team of Greek and German researchers found it on an ...