The wooden ship tradition did not die out at Hydra. The Hydriots and other Greek islanders continued to hew large and small ...

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Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...

I read Homer in High School. And slowly, in my college classes in ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, I realized Homer’s epic poems were at the very core of Hellenic civilization. The more I ...

Greece is the cradle of European civilization, but is it even in Europe? The answer might seem obvious: The country is on the European landmass, of course, and it’s part of the European Union—for now ...

Step into the world of Ancient Greece and discover how Paul's journeys transformed the course of Christianity in Europe. Explore biblical sites, Greek history, and Roman ruins in this captivating ...

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started ...