An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years.

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

and the city's claim to fame was that it was actually the first capital of the modern Greek state, from 1823 to 1834, before Athens took over. Its name comes from the Venetian Napoli di Romania ...

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

The acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone mesa above hectic modern ... time in Greece aboard the S.S. Olympia, I took a taxi from Piraeus to Athens. Approaching the city from the southwest ...