The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

It stresses the many diverse cultures that comprised “Greece” and ... classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern scholarship on these periods through critical lenses, considering questions of ...

She trained as a classical archaeologist at a time when women working on European and Middle Eastern ... in the ancient world — Koloski-Ostrow set about understanding more-marginalized non-elites: ...

In fact, Confucius himself is believed to have compiled the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry. Titled Shi Jing, or ...

When faced with uncertainty, humans often seek answers, whether in the generalized predictions of horoscopes or in the ...

In this installment, see the history of diet culture from Ancient Greece to Ozempic ... Banting indeed targeted “A Letter on Corpulence” to the growing white male middle class, who prized self-control ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... and on the third day - the middle day of the Games - 100 oxen are sacrificed in his honour.

There, sitting on elaborately carved stone benches in small vaulted rooms, society’s ruling class drank a bitter mix of ... “Were you an ancient Rome kid or an ancient Greece kid?” Grace Horseman, a ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

A symposium today is a scholarly conference, but in ancient ... soft in the middle—Zarnkow carries them from the kitchen to an upstairs lecture hall. There, in front of his class, he slides ...

The unique ancient Greek board game that was discovered at the Knossos Palace on Crete shows that the ancients had a penchant for leisurely games ...

Forever Is Now, a series of installations by well-known contemporary artists, considers the legacy of Ancient Egypt anew ...