Peisistratus was an ancient Greek statesman who ruled Athens as a tyrant but laid the foundation for the city's later ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Thebes had been under ... Romantic relationships between adult men and teenage boys were widely accepted as a form of social mentorship in which the older partner ...

From the early 1990s, the Greek economy’s growth has also ... In the wake of population growth, many men left their native polities and moved to sparsely populated regions around Greece. In ancient ...

They were fallible men of flesh and bone whose biographies ... An 1888 illustration shows a bust of the ancient Greek historian and general Thucydides, known as “the father of scientific history.” ...

In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to ... open-air ‘stadion’, very like a modern sports stadium. Greek men and boys trained in a gymnasium. We also go to the gym, although today women ...

and several were located just outside Athens' city walls. The ancient Greeks regarded a healthy body almost as highly as a good education, and young men of wealthy background would spend a good ...

The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles ... the theatre staff had big sticks to keep them quiet. Actors in ancient Greece were all men… apart from that one… oh no, that ...