Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

such as Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium, both written around 360 B.C.E. Symposia in ancient Greece were hosted by aristocratic men for their peers. They were often held in private houses in ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent ... Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI The Greek historian Xenophon recounts in his Symposium that one day Socrates was out walking with some ...

Handbooks instructed horse owners on the correct treatment of their animals; the oldest one still surviving today is On the Art of Horsemanship by the Greek writer and philosopher Xenophon ... to ride ...