The first science fiction novel about man on the Moon was written in Greek by a writer named Lucian of Samosata 2,000 years ...

Ancient Greek women were defiant and established themselves as respected doctors, philosophers, and mathematicians in Greece thousands of years ago.

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...

The most immediate source of controversy in any Great Books course is its name, which inevitably prompts the question, what ...

What do we understand under the term “History”? As Herodotus noted, history-writing, means “inquiry”, a vocation further developed and applied by Thucydides. Now, did the Europeans come to ...

Scientists in Israel just grew date palm trees from 2,000-year-old seeds, some of which were found in the Dead Sea Scroll ...

When I started to send my own writing to magazines, long ago ... couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” a sentiment from the Greek Herodotus and carved into the Farley post ...

“Even though Herodotus never let the facts get in the way of a good story, he also had some really good ideas. He was writing to an audience in a new way that assumed readers were not familiar with ...