The Greeks chose the Tsipras ultimatum strategy, so they can’t blame the Germans for what comes next. The big question now is whether German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other Europeans will flinch.

The Greeks gave us democracy, the Olympics and edible grape leaves. But 2,500 years later, what other traces have they left on modern society? In an age of Internet blogs and reality TV, join NPR ...

Moreover, the Greeks had no concept of “obscenity,” a legal notion that would not come into existence in Western culture for another 2,000 years. Greek comedy, for example, was often quite bawdy.

He killed 20,000 Soviet Greeks. (Will Englund/The Washington Post) By Will Englund. Galina Chumak is proud to be Greek, however foolish she knows that pride may be.

The Greeks lost 40 ships, the Persians 200. Unable to keep his land army supplied Xerxes was forced to flee back to his empire, parts of which, encouraged by the Greeks' success, had already ...

One common reaction to the European debt crisis has been to blame the victim: If only those Greeks/Italians would work harder, like us Americans/Germans, then they wouldn't be in this pickle, the ...