Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...

In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast ...

Thinkers, called Sophists, migrated to the city from their traditional homes on the coast of Western Turkey ... center of intellectual life in Ancient Greece had been the symposium, the drinking ...

Perspectives on Western Culture is a year-long ... In the first semester, students begin by encountering two "spiritual eruptions": the rise of Greek philosophy, and the Judeo-Christian experience of ...

It was forged by the Jews, the inventors of Western culture. Through Abraham and Moses, they laid the moral foundations for this new civilization. It was forged by the Greeks and the Romans ...