Greek Reporter

Mani: The Last Worshipers of the Ancient Gods in Byzantine Greece

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...
Greek Reporter

The Five Ages of Ancient Greece: From Bronze to Hellenistic

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...
CounterPunch

The Bronze Age Origins of Greek Civilization

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...
CounterPunch

The Promethean Antikythera Computer of Greek Civilization

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...
The American Conservative

When Greece Was Rich—and Why

Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...