Ancient Greek life consisted of celebrity scandals, lowbrow humor, and public graffiti, similar to today's world.

Democracy is often celebrated as the highest form of governance . Yet more than 2,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher ...

The following post summarizes the author’s Chapter 2 of Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy. Never in the history of the world has there been such a high-ranking member of society to ...

Ancient Greece was once a magnet for the world’s intellectual elite. Scholarly work out of Athens contributed to everything from logic and philosophy to the politics that formed the basis of modern ...

Through the centuries, historians have portrayed the 399BC trial as a travesty, with Socrates forced to face charges invented by his ignorant fellow citizens. He was found guilty of "impiety" and ...