Are all those ancient sculptors conning us? No amount of philosophy explains some of Greece’s more peculiar customs.

Perched on a high rock near Corinth are the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, which once housed a thousand prostitutes.

In the heart of the Aegean Sea, Delos is just a tiny speck of dust on ... witness to the incredible accumulation of wealth in the temple of Apollo. Gold, bronze, jewels: offerings from Greek ...

Three years later negotiations, led by Aristides of Athens, began on the Greek island of Delos. The result was the Delian League, a sort of ancient equivalent to NATO. Few records remain of this ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Delos was once the religious and political center of the Cyclades; Greek legend says that this was the birthplace of Apollo (god of music and light) and Artemis ...