Before Christopher Nolan brings his interpretation of Homer's epic poem to the big screen, Yahoo brings you the definitive ...

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The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

Seventh-graders learning about ancient Rome reenacted a portion of history — the Gladiator Games — shocking by today’s ...

Tug of war has been played for thousands of years. Today it's being celebrated globally. Here is more on its origins.

Christopher Nolan has his Odysseus for his movie adaptation of The Odyssey, and it’s Matt Damon. Universal Pictures just ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large modern societies, it operates instead as representative democracy within ...

Common themes in today’s literature and theatre, such as courage, determination, jealousy, love and faithfulness, existed ...

What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

The aqueduct helped supply the city for hundreds of years but fell into disuse after the Roman era. Athenians began to reuse ...