It’s our legacy you might say. My name is Arete of Cyrene. I study and teach philosophy. I am a philosopher. And, wow, there are a lot of us in Ancient Greece. We spend our time thinking about ...

It’s one of hundreds of sites that remain long after the Romans left Britain, and just part of the legacy of Ancient Rome. Now Bath was named after the Romans left. But there are plenty of towns ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from the wealthy middling ranks of society, particularly the farmers. They wore bronze armor breastplates ...