The Greeks and Romans figured out music and exercise go hand in hand more than 2,000 years ago – long before science backed it.
Articles on Greek history
Displaying all articles
The harpies were not nice people. They existed in myth to dish out punishments from the gods.
From dogs to snakes, people have been keeping pets for millennia. Here’s what people in ancient civilisations thought about their furry (or scaled, or feathered) friends.
Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age and their providence could be wrong.
In Greek mythology, the Fates controlled the destiny of men and – in some instances – gods
Paradoxes point to conceptual glitches or bugs. How to fix the bugs, or whether they can be fixed, is rarely obvious.
This particular revival of the games – which started about 300 years ago – was all about wordplay and battles of wit.
Shouting, squelching, singing, constantly moving, ancient urban wineries were an assault on the senses
A 2,500 year old drawing by a Greek shepherd on a hill near Athens may solve the mystery of a large temple on the Acropolis that predates the Parthenon.
For the Ancient Greeks, the way a philosopher died was meant to reflect their lives and teachings.
God Forgets About the Poor is one part family saga, one part autofiction, one part Proustian journey through memory.
A scholar of ancient Greek literature goes back to the account of Greek historian Thucydides on the spread of plague and finds parallels in the American response to the health crisis today.
We all need to know about the science of COVID as we battle through pandemic, but the ultimate story will lie in how it changed our societies.
Homer and Aeschylus turned to the divine to write their happy endings. But no gods are conspiring above the US, ready to swoop down and save humankind from itself.
Without the scientific knowledge we have today, ancient cultures turned to myths and legends to understand celestial objects.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
-
Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
-
Lecturer in Classical Languages and Culture, Leiden University
-
Classical Archaeologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radboud University
-
Research Associate, Power Institute for Arts and Visual Culture, University of Sydney
-
Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University
-
Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
-
Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Nottingham
-
Research fellow, University of Bristol
-
Assistant Professor in the Archaeology and History of the Ancient Mediterranean, University of Warwick
-
PhD Candidate in Classical Greek and Roman History, University of Sydney
-
Executive Chair, Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Professor, School of Classics, University of St Andrews
-
Lecturer in Archaeology and Classical Studies, Adelaide University ; School of Advanced Study, University of London