Ancient Greece

Byzantine society was extremely diverse, encompassing Christian Greeks, Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Coptics, and the Jewish populations, among others, but are the Byzantines considered Roman, Greek, or both? During the Byzantine Golden Age under Emperor Justinian, the Byzantine Empire stretched around...

Many important ancient temples are located in Greece and other countries, such as Italy, which were then part of the ancient Greek empire.

Aristoxenus of Tarentum is a relatively unknown Greek peripatetic philosopher who made groundbreaking contributions to the fields of music theory and rhythm, shaping ancient Greek music profoundly. Even though he is considered to be the first musicologist in the Western...

A dusky glow over the Parthenon provided the backdrop for the lighting of the Olympic lantern as part of the flame handover ceremony, ready to make its journey to Marseille and then around the rest of the world. A magnificent...

Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between city states

Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in what is now Taranto, Apulia, Italy, was another in a long line of brilliant polymaths from Ancient Greece, a noted military general and strategist who also made...

The oldest song to have survived in its entirety is a first-century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the ancient Greek musical notation, was found in...

World history could have been very different than what it is today had the ancient Greeks not halted the expansion of Persia through a series of epic battles on land and sea. These took place in the 4th century...

The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Without the scholars of this period, who translated the works of the Ancient...

The mystery over the Riace Bronzes, two magnificent ancient Greek statues, remains, more than half a century after the day they were recovered off the coast of the Italian region of Calabria in August of 1972. To this day, archaeologists...