Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC, relatively early in Pericles' long career as Athens' leading politician. He left a number of important plays that still survive today ...

Pericles called Athens "the school of Hellas ... "If the Parthenon is the ultimate expression, the marble embodiment of the Athenian golden age, that golden age was brief." ...

But there is one Greek writer of this great and golden age of Pericles whom I do not share with my freshmen. He is reserved for my own delight, for those hours when one escapes from students ...

In subsequent negotiations, the Spartans raised specific demands that, if accepted, might have avoided war. Urged by Pericles, the Athenians decided not to negotiate about ultimatums; any ...

The first golden age of Athenian tourism occurred around ... where the Athenian fleet was built and berthed in the days of ...

Cotelingham’s experience is increasingly common. We are living in the golden age of scams. U.S. consumers lost a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, according to the Federal Trade Commission ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, in collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological ...

Hennessy and David A. Patterson described the present as the “golden age of computer architecture”. Compared to the early days of MS-DOS, when designing user- and kernel-space interactions was ...

Herbie Flowers, bass guitarist and collaborator of David Bowie and more, has died at 86, remembered for a string of timeless ...

Paper maps are unnecessary in the age of smartphones.Credit: iStock Not any more. These days, we’re never really lost. We already know where everything is. Absolutely everything: that shop ...

While we admire the artistic qualities of Athenian drama, it is worthwhile also to ask in what ways its development and success can be related to the simultaneous development of democracy, ...