T he ancient Romans took bathing seriously—it was a crucial facet of their daily lives, and people from a range of social ...

Journalist Thomas Ricks, author of the new book, "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country." photo credit, Alessandro Vulcano) The ...

At the beginning of Charles Freeman’s lively survey of Greek thought after the Romans began running the world, readers attend a party stocked with Stoics, Platonists, Peripatetics (Aristotelians), ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

The ancient Greeks on Crete may have cheated the Romans by exporting "knock-off" versions of their highly prized raisin wine.

From packed train carriages to busy shopping centers, being crammed together in often poorly ventilated spaces had become so normal that it has taken us a long time to get used to social distancing.

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognised that the climate changes over time ...

Catherine Sturgill was a freshman in high school when she joined the National Junior Classical League in 1981 because of her interest in Latin. That same year, she attended her first national ...