This striking vase was the first painted Greek vase to enter the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s collection. It is in the form of a nestoris, a two handled jar often with attached discs decorating the ...

As Greek colonies spread across Europe, they shared their wine-making wisdom far and wide. Even when ancient Greece's influence waned, their successors -- such as the Romans -- adopted and adapted ...

Much of what we know about the Battles of Himera comes from the Greek historians Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus — and much of their accounts are contradictory. Herodotus, for his part, tends to focus ...

The largest archeological area in Europe at about 670 acres, this site was once home to one of the largest Greek colonies on the island, dating to 600 B.C. Today, visitors can tour the ruins of ...

The debate oscillated, tipping the scales toward Greek origin as more vases were found in Greece and toward Etruscan origin as more vases were found in Etruria (7). As late as 1905, scholars believed ...

The most important of the Athenian war leaders was Miltiades, a powerful and fabulously wealthy aristocrat who had once been tyrant of several Greek colonies on the coast of Turkey. It was ...