There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...

"New Orleans," wrote A. J. Liebling in 1961, lies "within the orbit of a Hellenistic world that never touched the North Atlantic." Each May, New Orleanians are reminded of their city's Grecian aura at ...

THE debt crisis that caused Greece to ask for an international bailout on Friday has been attributed to many things, all economic: Greece’s budget deficits, its lack of transparency and its ...

If someone were to mention the date 480 BCE to you, you might not realize its significance. Not right off, anyway. But if someone were then to yell out, “This is SPARTA!” you’d probably – thanks to ...