A Look into Ancient Athenians' Religious Life The Panathenaea was an excellent display of the Athenian's adoration of Athena. I love how...

Where the Panathenaic Games were for Athenian athletes, the Panhellenic games included all Greek-speaking peoples. The Games were...

Since I was so captured by the brief look we got into Clytemnestra and Agamemnon’s story during our discussions about Mycenae, I jumped...

As we have gone about our virtual journey through Greece, one of my favorite aspects of each of our sites and the stories behind them is...

The value of travel is not inherently dependent on physically being in a new place. De Botton highlights this in his text, The Art of...

Agon Agon is the core of the Panathenaic Games; it is contest, struggle, conflict, and proving oneself. It is found in pushing one's...

Before the Procession The evening before the procession a relay race was held. The run began at the altar of Prometheus, located on the...

Quick Facts Born 428 BCE Athenian Follower of Socrates Opened the Academy in 387 BCE Teacher of Aristotle Died 348 BCE Died in Athens...

One of Plato's most popular philosophical brain teasers begins with the Allegory of the Cave. Below I have given a brief summary of the...

Plato's Academy was a complex composed of buildings, a park, and a gymnasium. Aristotle's Lyceum, which came later, was composed of a...

Q: What is the good life? Aristotle studied a wide plethora of topics; one topic that Aristotle had groundbreaking views on that really...

Quick Facts: Born 384 BCE Macedonian, not Athenian Studied at Plato's Academy in Athens for 20 years, from 367-347 BCE Tutored Alexander...

Aristotle's Lyceum was a complex which included a grove of trees on the outskirts of the city, rather than a fortified building like...

The Areopagus is a rock outcropping that served as a court in ancient Athens. The structure may get its name from the myth which states...

The Pnyx stands as the official meeting place of the Athenian democracy. Here, citizens gave speeches regarding political happenings in...

In ancient Athens, Kerameikos was an area on the edge of the city's walls. Kerameikos was home to many of the potters in Athens,...

One of the Homeric sites, Mycenae was once a lost city. Uncovered with the help of Heinrich Schliemann, the site stands today as a symbol...

The Athenians' victory at Marathon is famous because the odds were so stacked against them. It is estimated that the Persians outnumbered...

The Acropolis, home to the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheon, and the great Parthenon, was the heart of religious life...

The term "theaters of Dionysus" is a loose one, seeing as all theaters were considered temples for Dionysus. Further, the act of going to...