Ancient Greek pottery portraying Achilles and ... Even as far back as the fifth century BC, some Greek observers criticized the individual designs on shields. As historian Hans van Wees stated, some ...

Each year, this ceremony -- called "Anastenaria" ("sighs" in Greek) -- attracts crowds of visitors. Considered a pagan ritual to honour the ancient Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis, the ancient ...

The response received to the question. “It’s all Greek to me” — Leinster House officials and Government Departments are pleading mystification in the strange case of a TD who received a ...

These spectacular stone structures represent some of the most significant depictions of the religious and funerary practices of an ancient society that drew on both its Greek and Persian heritage.

And then it disappeared beneath the sands when the river shifted its course. The ancient Greek city-state of Helike ruled as an important economic, cultural, and religious center. Listed among ...

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

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Researchers decode ancient Greek music by reconstructing its exact tuning and intonation. Credit: wikimedia commons / Basedakov CC B Y 4.0 More than two thousand years after ancient Greek and Roman ...

The fire walking ritual, held on the day of the Orthodox feast of Saint Constantine and Saint Helena on May 21, has been practised for over a century in four villages of the Greek region of Macedonia, ...