While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city all make Athens one of the most incredible cities in Europe. The capital of Greece is a ...

Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ancient city. You will most likely spend the majority of your stay within central Athens near all of the city's well-known attractions.

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people ... Free admission days to this central Athens site are offered on select holidays and winter Sundays. Tickets include ...

Whereas the traditional center of intellectual life in Ancient Greece had been ... moved to the city to complete their researches. Athens' homegrown talent, its playwrights, used the new theatres ...

Thucydides called it the most beautiful suburb of ancient Athens. But Kerameikos was also the location of the ancient city’s most important cemeteries. And when it became apparent that ...

But in doing so, we have created one of the most important civilisations of the Ancient World. I am Aspasia, one of the most important women in the city of Athens. And this is my home, which has ...

The result was the Delian League, a sort of ancient equivalent to NATO. Few records remain of this initial meeting and historians are not even clear which city-states, apart from Athens ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.