On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek ...

Mr. Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into the eurozone and laid the groundwork for the Olympic Games’ return to Athens. By Alan Cowell Costas Simitis ...

The Olympic Games are heralded as one of the oldest sporting events in history, dating back to ancient Greece. But were the Greek Olympics actually influenced by the existence of a very similar ...

The goddess's body was not fully revealed in Greek art, however, until about 350 B.C., when a sensational cult statue in her temple at Knidos (in present-day Turkey), carved by the sculptor Praxiteles ...

Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medalist, has died at age 103. Keleti, a Hungarian gymnast, did not compete in the Olympics until she was 31 in 1956 due to numerous circumstances.

In The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and Culture, William Blake Tyrrell (Michigan State University) takes on a broader brief. His very detailed and fully referenced discussion of the ...

Take your students into the world of Greek and Roman myths—ancient stories about heroes, monsters, gods, and goddesses. Seven activities introduce students to these stories and their characters ...

Lessort, whose NBA rights currently belong to the Knicks, has agreed to a contract extension with renowned Greek club Panathinaikos ... silver medal last summer's Olympics in Paris, averaging ...

Public Domain The beloved painting, The Carols (Greek: Τα Κάλαντα), created in 1872 by the Greek painter Nikiforos Lytras, is one of the most famous works in the history of modern Greek art. It is ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Greek Tragedy Survival Horror returns to Campus From the past misses (Hannibal) to his latest blockbusters (Gladiator II), the Golden Globe-winning ...

Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Wendell Cruz/Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Led by Simone Biles, the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team reclaimed team gold at the Paris Olympics. After taking home ...