As opposed to the Periclean age when man was the pre-eminent personage in Athenian life, woman now begins to occupy the place of prominence. Though the empire was destroyed, Athens still continued ...

The hotel’s terrace has a ridiculous vantage point for sunset over the Aegean – this is a Greek island after all. After our ...

Survivors lost fingers, toes, eyesight, memory. Athenian life was completely demoralized. Beginning in 540 A. D. and lasting some 50 years, another plague surged around the Mediterranean Sea.

it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles ...

In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non ... consequences for Pericles own private life. A few years later Pericles divorced his ...