But we can find Achilles Tatius, for example, where he says, "As a race, slaves are utter cowards". Look, it seems like we can't ignore this ugly side of ancient Greek history. How ready everyone ...

Inscriptions found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza have finally put to bed the long-held belief that the ancient wonder was ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Ancient Civilizations series, we explore primary sources to understand how Greeks ...

In 1824, the island of Psara faced a brutal invasion by Ottoman forces. The islanders, known as Psariots, mounted a fierce ...

This plaster cast is as close as we can get to Powers' "original" Greek Slave. It was made in the artist's studio directly from Powers' clay model and records the date "March 12, 1843," when the ...

Greek Slave became the most famous sculpture of the nineteenth century and propelled the artist, Hiram Powers (1805-73), to international stardom. The work was so provocatively lifelike that certain ...

The summer solstice occurs each year on June 21. It was celebrated by ancient cultures across the world, including the ...

Doing a light joke after announcing a heavy premise is always smart, but Che’s brother reference also defuses some objections ...

Whether we cross oceans or tread through minefields of painful secrets, God holds us safely in his hands. If we veer off ...

The secrets of Greek demography A Greek newspaper editor, Nikos Konstandaras, said in the midst of the country’s debt crisis, in 2013, that: “The Greeks ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.