How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study...

Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transf...

The origins, development, and nature of the classical Greek city-state or polis are as much a cen...

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of th...

In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture,...

Symposion is the Greek word for 'drinking together'the social institution of reclining on couches...