Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

The language and culture of the Hellenistic world was Greek. That became the lingua franca of all of these subject peoples. It was to that world what English is to the modern world in many ways ...

The Hellenistic era, which spanned from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the establishment of the Roman Empire in 31 BCE, witnessed a significant evolution in Greek sculpture.

Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential, controversial, and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes.

The last period of Greek history is known as the Hellenistic period. This lasted from 323BC to 30BC when the Romans conquered Greece. The Romans respected the Greeks and copied many things about ...

Towards the end of the 3rd century BCE, the Romans entered the Greek world as disruptors to the status quo. The Romans were not simply foreign conquerors. As their role in the Hellenistic world ...