Ancient Athens is one of the oldest capital cities in the world, the birthplace of democracy and the inspiration for the American constitution. But modern Athens is comparatively young by European ...

You step off the bus, and you think you know what you are going to see. You’ve seen the pictures, taken the rudimentary 8th-grade course on ancient Greece, and watched the movie “Clash of the Titans.” ...

For a long time, my advice was to see the big sights, then get out. But Athens has dramatically changed. A century and a half ago, Athens was a humble, forgotten city of about 8,000 people. Today, one ...

The birthplace of Western civilization is surely where all Greek island-hopping should begin—Athens. Where the rambling streets of the Plaka rub shoulders with the sprawling squares of Sytagma. Before ...