Calling all history buffs! Add this underrated town near Naples to your bucket list to see ancient Greek ruins in an ...

What has the United States ever done for Greece? In a country where anti-Americanism was rife, the question brings heated ...

Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Pericles” is through December 7 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 East Grand. Showtimes are ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...

“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant ...

On Friday, for the first time in some 30 years, Britain’s illustrious Royal Shakespeare Company will open a show in Chicago — William Shakespeare’s “Pericles,” now in previews in Chicago ...

The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and lasting until ...

Athenian elites had long had connections with the other power-brokers of the classical Greek world, Sparta and Persia ... was placed in the care of the great Athenian statesman Pericles, who chose ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...