Sophists in ancient Greece were professional educators and intellectuals. Their teachings emphasized public speaking and ...

Celebrating the arrival of the New Year is a popular custom around the world, as it has been for thousands of years. We find the same basic celebration—although expressed in different ways—in various ...

If you look closely, you can see a variety of similarities between the commemoration of the birth of Christ and the worship ...

Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a system that allowed certain dangerous individuals to be expelled from the ...

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A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University ...

The claim originated from a speech Trump gave during a joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Members of Greece’s former royal family have applied for Greek citizenship and formally acknowledged the country’s republican system of government, in a landmark move 50 ...

The ‘transitional’ administration at Damascus looks like it is going to stay a while — that’s good news if your last name is ...

Members of Greece’s former royal family have expressed “deep emotion” after being granted Greek citizenship, ending a decades-old dispute with the country's government ATHENS, Greece ...

Artists owe a great debt to ancient Rome. Over the years ... Recently, figures from across the political spectrum have leapt to lay claim to antiquity, even as new translations of Homer have ...

An interdisciplinary study, involving philosophical and historical discourses, of ancient and pertinent modern models for recovering and interpreting the nature of political thought and action in (a) ...