Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

"New Orleans," wrote A. J. Liebling in 1961, lies "within the orbit of a Hellenistic world that never touched the North Atlantic." Each May, New Orleanians are reminded of their city's Grecian aura at ...

Ancient Greek philosophers envisioned a fourth continent across the Atlantic, anticipating America centuries before Columbus.

This week the Greek parliament voted through the harshest austerity measures to date — a condition of another IMF/EU bailout aimed to avoid bankruptcy. In response, the Athens streets erupted in riots ...