Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

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Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

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In the Iliad, did Homer really describe the type of warfare common to the Mycenaean Era? Or was he describing the warfare of ...

The hotel’s terrace has a ridiculous vantage point for sunset over the Aegean – this is a Greek island after all. After our ...

Eunapius of Sardis, a Greek historian and rhetorician who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries AD, wrote a Life of the ...

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' ...

with commercial transactions written in Greek and Demotic scripts. Preliminary studies suggest the pottery workshop was in use during the Byzantine era but was repurposed during the seventh ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece — Only one Englishman who had a ... and was portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie of the games, Chariots of Fire, and in 1968 he presented medals to Tommie Smith and ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece — (AP ... Paris Olympics and was portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie of the games, Chariots of Fire, and in 1968 he presented medals to Tommie Smith and John Carlos ...