Here's what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about the environment and ourselves. From Roman soldiers in crowded ...

Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human ...

The ancient Greek language and culture spread through Africa following the conquests of Alexander the Great on the continent.

A bust depicting a woman or goddess, dated at the end of the 4th century BC, is one of the highlights of the Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis in northern Greece. The female bust was found together ...

Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations that have shaped our modern world. From philosophy and democracy ...

Despite the stereotypes, eunuchs clearly often played important roles in the ostensibly masculine world of strategic planning ...

Ancient Greek and Latin literature (covering a period from approximately 800 BC to 500 AD) is in many ways the basis of our own culture and our own way of thinking; numerous literary texts of ...

These concerns are not new. Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from these ancient times contains many references to ...

Examining ancient Greek and Roman texts reveals that environmental concerns are not new. Historical figures like Pliny the ...

This anonymous ancient proverb is wrongly attributed to Euripides and quoted as a ldquo;heathen proverb rdquo; in ...