The ancient Greek statesman Pericles (ca 495–429 B.C.) left his mark on the world in far more ways than the iconic Acropolis that still defines the skyline of Athens. He advanced the foundations of ...

Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been a place of human settlement for at least ...

Some megalomaniacs bequeath their names to a city, like Léopoldville or Constantinople. Most great men settle for a statue or a street sign. But a few, a very few, are immortalised as the epithet of ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have taken account of everything. With a fleet of 300 triremes; 13,000 hoplite infantrymen; 1,200 cavalry and16,000 reserves; the Athenians believed ...

Through the course of Western history, only a few leaders have so dominated their eras as to lend them an adjectival label. England had its Elizabethan age, Rome its Augustan. But first came Periclean ...

In the year 431 BC Pericles stood before the popular assembly and urged them to make a momentous decision: 'If we go to war, as I think we must, be determined that we are not going to climb down. For ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Athens: A cup believed to have been used by Classical Greek statesman Pericles has been found in a pauper's grave in north Athens, ...

Greek opinion is divided over the government’s plan to offer the Parthenon and other heritage sites as film and photo backdrops to raise revenue during its current economic crisis. “This is sacrilege!