Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

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

Tufts University, January 13-14, 2010. “Rediscovering Homer: Manuscript Digitization and the Homer Multitext Project.” 18th Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference. University of Patras, Greece, ...

Work and wages in ancient Greece are often overlooked topics. Credit: Dosseman / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Ancient Greece is the subject of immense scholarly and popular attention.

This Greek cup, dating from around 510 B.C., depicts an Amazon warrior on a horse. Scholars suggest wording on the vase names the woman Worthy of Armor in ancient Circassian.

As is so often the case in Greek history, real events merge with myth—and there’s no more perfect example than the island of Ithaca, renowned as the homeland of ‘Odysseus’ the hero king in ...

Evidence that Hesiod came before Homer Several sources from the fourth century BCE place Hesiod earlier than Homer. One notable source for this idea is Ephorus of Cyme, a Greek historian who lived ...

Germany as the heir of the Roman Empire To understand Nazi Germany’s connection to ancient Greece, we must first comprehend how they saw their connections with Rome. The Western Roman Empire fell to ...

The first is ΟΔΥCCEOC, the Greek genitive (i.e. possessive or attributive) case of Odysseus which suggests a writer referring to the location as the hero’s palace or temple.

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Ancient Greek physicians believed that the full moon could disturb the balance of the brain, triggering madness in the vulnerable. Credit: wikimedia commons / George Spanoudakis CC BY 4.0 Ancient ...