Homer’s Odyssey is one of the greatest works of ancient Greek epic poetry, telling the incredible journey of Odysseus as he battles monsters, gods, and fate itself.

The Ancients host Tristan Hughes and historian Roel Konijnendijk debate some wild theories about Ancient Greece, and Ancient ...

Leonidas, the legendary King of Sparta, is mostly known for leading the 300 heroic Spartans and dying with them in the Battle ...

Alcibiades was a gifted politician and general, but he is ultimately remembered as a traitor to Athens for defecting to ...

The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...

The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

In an ancient Greek city on Turkey’s Aegean coast, archaeologists have uncovered a small clay pot filled with Persian gold coins buried about 2,400 years ago. The hidden stash looks like royal pay for ...

ATHENS – With Piraeus under China’s shipping giant and Thessaloniki linked to Russian-Greek business interests, Washington is now seeking a foothold in Greece’s strategic ports – but analysts say it ...

The news that the Americans are planning a strategic investment to create an alternative trade corridor to counter Cosco and the port of Piraeus, through the development of the port of Eleusis, is ...

An elderly woman collects wood ahead of the winter in an area that was recently shelled in the village of Yasenove, south of the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, on October 8, 2024, amid the Russian ...