Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

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

The Ancient Greek winter revolved around Hestia’s hearth and the city’s sacred flame, signifying the importance of fire in ...

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 ...