Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Historians call this Classical Greece. Image caption, The Parthenon temple was built for the Greek goddess Athena. It sits on top of a hill called the Acropolis and looks out over the city of Athens.

Archaeologists have discovered the remnants of a classical statue dating back more than 1,800 years in the ancient metropolis of Philippi, in northeastern Greece. During the excavation ...

Classical Greece and Rome shaped foundational ideas about democracy, justice, virtue and power that still inform modern thought. Yet there is also a tendency to invoke them for their symbolic prestige ...