The economy of Ancient Athens was more than just silver coins - it was an early model of a financial empire. With an extensive trade network and a reliance on imported grain, Athens developed ...

A model dressed as a bride and a man as an ancient Greek warrior, pose before a military parade to commemorate the start of ...

Recorded, and probably rewritten by the historian Thucydides, it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...