“Praise wine that is old...but praise the flowers of songs that are new.” — Pindar, from the Olympian Odes The Greek port city of Patras lies several hundred kilometers west ofAthens, on the Gulf of ...

Surviving images on ancient works of art frequently depict the symposium, where ancient Greeks reclined on one side to eat ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

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Greek islands have enchanted people for thousands of years. Odysseus spent 10 years traveling around them on his way home in the epic poem, “The Odyssey.” Jacquelyn Kennedy idled away many days on ...

Traditionally known as the “first citizen of Athens,” Pericles was a lover of art and literature, and a driving force behind the Parthenon’s construction. Now, archeologists in the modern Greek ...

Greece has always had a complex relationship with time. Ancient history and modernity in most places make for uneasy bedfellows. In Greece? They’re inseparable. Ancient Greece essentially pioneered ...