Just imagine a Greek actress dressed in flowing robes standing before the ruins of an ancient temple, raising a parabolic mirror to the sky, and igniting a flame that will travel thousands of miles to ...

The discovery of the Snake Goddess made researchers focus on the mysterious religion of Minoan Crete and its connection of ...

Growing up in Greece, Dimitris Xygalatas remembers adults at school putting him through regular practices that didn't serve an obvious purpose. DIMITRIS XYGALATAS: We'd have morning prayer. Twice a ...

Diagoras was the first known atheist, whose bold critique of the gods was crucial in shaping early Greek secular thought.

Photographer John Demos’ decades-long work documenting Greek ‘panigiria’ – traditional celebrations – is being exhibited in the Bulgarian capital. Greek photographer John Demos has been involved in a ...

How To Party Like An Ancient Greek With Ancient Historian Michael Scott' Ever wondered what a Greek Symposium would have looked like? Ancient historian Michael Scott speaks to History Hit's Tristan ...

New research is uncovering a richer, more complex picture of women's roles as wives, priestesses, and scholars in ancient Greece. A woman places her robe in a chest in a fifth century B.C. Greek ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — In an ongoing struggle between the Atheist Union of Greece and Greece’s Ministry of Education, Greece’s Council of State ruled this month that Greek Orthodox students cannot be ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas about his new book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. Growing up in Greece, Dimitris Xygalatas remembers ...