Surviving images on ancient works of art frequently depict the symposium, where ancient Greeks reclined on one side to eat ...

There is a historical anecdote about the reason the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war with each other when Philip and his army conquered all of Greece. It was 338 BCE when the mighty ...

The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple ...

The ancient tradition of the Bell People in the Greek village of Distomo marks the end of carnival. Revelers clad themselves in animal skins and heavy bronze bells.

It came from President Xi Jinping, delivered to congratulate the inauguration of the China-Greece Center for Mutual Learning ...

wrap party in Greece. ‘Yes, I was drunk—everyone was ... Speaking while filming her new documentary Ancient Greece by Train, Roberts echoed Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni’s call for ...

DISTOMO, Greece — Feeling overwhelmed by everyday obligations or doom-scrolling? The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practiced annually by their rural descendants. In the mountain ...

The first kind of love is Eros, named after the Greek God of fertility. Eros is passion, lust and pleasure. The ancient Greeks considered Eros to be dangerous and frightening as it involves a “loss of ...

DISTOMO, Greece (AP) — In the mountain village of Distomo, the “Koudounaraioi” — literally, the “Bell People” — transform themselves into half-human, half-beast revelers in a ritual ...