The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

and other remnants of its long and impressive history. One of these is the Agora of Ancient Athens, otherwise known as the Greek Agora. Matt and I were excited to take the kids there, and I wanted ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium ... This period is known by historians as the Archaic period of Greek history. During this time many of the cities in Greece were ruled by a king-like ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... The word skolion means “sideways” in ancient Greek, a reference to how the guests took ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.