Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

ATHENS, Greece — Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, will be buried as a private citizen in Tatoi, the former summer residence of Greece’s royals and the place where his parents ...

This was true in ancient Greece, although you wouldn’t know it ... symbolized the demise of kingly oppression and the rise of citizen equality and civic pride. For instance, neither Herodotus ...