In his work The Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Greeks borrowed much of their knowledge, ...

The practice of perfuming statues was deeply rooted in the religious and cultural rituals of ancient Greece and Rome. Texts ...

Archaeologists in Selinunte, Italy, have uncovered the sacred chamber of oldest known Greek temple of the ancient city.

The tale of Salmoneus, the king who dared to imitate Zeus, reveals ancient fears of hubris, madness, and divine punishment.

Followers of the 12 Greek Gods, who, according to mythology, ruled the Ancient World from Mount Olympus, have cast a thunderbolt at their Orthodox opponents. After successfully staging a landmark ...

Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact ...

The idea that women were inferior to men was a widely held belief in ancient Greek society, and one that would go on to influence Western culture for many centuries thanks in large part to the ...

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in their apprenticeship to virtue. . . .” Threat of Destruction. “. . . This poem is a miracle.

Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable 2,000-year-old snake altar in the ancient city of Patara, Türkiye. This unique find, featuring a coiled snake relief, offers new insights into the religious ...

But for many centuries the answer has been a religious one. According to the ancient Greeks, for healings one had to turn to the gods, and to Asclepius in particular.