Quiet but bewitching, Chios is the fifth largest Greek island. Its landscapes, its fortified villages and its liquid gold: mastic. An undiscovered gem and a must-see!

Does Homer's Iliad really describe the horned helmets of the Mycenaean Era, or was he talking about something else entirely?

The women of Greece’s oldest civilization wove fabrics, carried weapons and wept over their lost children.

Explore Plato's life, his philosophical impact, and his travels to Sicily, along with key ideas on justice and the ideal ...

Situated on the eastern slopes of Exogi in northern Ithaca, the site—referred to since the 19th century as the “School of ...

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias ...

Ancient Greece ... the surviving manuscript we have is incomplete, missing its latter pages, but from the text of the preamble, we can determine that the list of seven sights matches Antipater’s.

The Greek philosopher unrolled a scroll ... beauty were papyrus scrolls that had been buried for 2,000 years. These ancient books were found in the Roman town of Herculaneum, which had been ...

This incredibly beautiful place is an intellectual lifeboat carrying the precious cargo of Greek wisdom across centuries. A Greek cardinal and his mission to save ancient wisdom You ... down and ...

Imagine these well-educated men arriving, carrying bundles of ancient Greek manuscripts—Plato, Aristotle, Homer, the classics, everything that Byzantium had carefully preserved for a thousand years. A ...

Homer’s Iliad, one of the most celebrated and studied epic poems in history, has long resisted successful adaptation. While it has inspired countless modern novelists across diverse traditions, its ...

Praised by the ancient Greek literary giants Homer and Euripides for its superb quality nearly 3,000 years ago, Cyprus’ Commandaria is the world’s oldest recorded and named wine. Despite its ...