Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the Trojan Horse, outwitted the Cyclops, and resisted the deadly call of the ...

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...

Homer, an important Greek writer, told stories of the Mycenaean age in his books The Iliad and The Odyssey. After the Mycenaean age ended in about 1100BC , Greece entered a Dark Age .

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

The settlement was near Homer, Athens, Arcadia, Sparta, Antioch, where Pat Garrett was growing up, and several other communities with ancient Greek names. This castor oil was manufactured in 1937.