Sacred geometry found in ancient Greek temples is grounded on the idea that the world is created based on a consistent ...

The Ancient Agora of Athens was once the political, commercial, and social center of ancient Greek life. Surrounded by ...

Nathan Arrington, an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, sometimes visits the cemetery near campus to think. He is an expert on another burial ground, thousands of ...

THE Athens of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, which may properly enough be called the Periclean Athens, has been an extinct community for more than two thousand years, and yet it is more ...

The lesson-performance 'Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes', the most famous of the great Greek orator's speeches, written ...

Virtual reality has the power to transport viewers to places as hostile as the Red Planet and as sophisticated as a fine arts museum. Now, VR users can tour parts of ancient Athens like it appeared ...

Something unexpected happened in the summer of 2021. Suddenly, out of nowhere — and from locations near and far — everyone seemed to be heading for Athens. And why not? Whether by necessity or ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

In the Greek capital, ancient history is everywhere you look. But these days, the city is also home to boundary-pushing art. A passerby might have mistaken it for a wedding feast. In Metaxourgio, a ...