Archaeologists use lasers to locate ancient settlements and artifacts on Greek islands

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...
Greek Reporter

How Ancient Greek Cities Got Their Name

The origins of ancient Greek city names like Athens and Olympia reflect mythology, history, and the development of Greek ...
Greek Reporter

Eva Palmer Sikelianos: The American Who Lived Like an Ancient Greek

Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.
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Ancient Greek Empire

User-Created Clip by mcgorry November 15, 2022 2003-06-07T09:10:08-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/77f/1668612864.jpgAmerican University History Professor ...
The New Yorker

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

Mark Abbe was ambushed by color in 2000, while working on an archeological dig in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey. At the time, he was a graduate student at New York ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why So Many Mythological Monsters Are Female

A new collection of essays considers how the villainous women of classical antiquity resonate in contemporary Western society Nora McGreevy - Correspondent Explore the true history and myths behind ...
America Magazine

A defense of learning Latin and Greek (Also: Why does it even need defending?)

There is no assessment more objective than a written exam in an ancient language. Such a test measures recall of and facility with a language that exists only on the printed page, one governed by a ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Ancient Greek Ceramic Kilns

Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Review of ‘The Classical Greek Reader’, ‘Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World’

Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World At 3 o'clock one summer morning, a young classics scholar was crashing around in the ...