The ancient Greek historian Polybius, who came 600 years after Homer, believed The Odyssey was a real story with some myths, ...

We call those people ancient Greeks. The ancient Greeks lived mainly on coasts and islands surrounded by the Mediterranean ...

THE name of Kiepert is in itself a sufficient guarantee of the thoroughness and accuracy of a book on geography. That writer, in his “Lehrbuch der Alten Geographie”—from which the present work is ...

Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied Greek ...

But did you know that there were once ancient civilisations all around the world that have influenced our modern life？ An ...

A new study led by James Diggle argues that Homer’s Ithaca was not a separate island, but a region on Cephalonia linked to ...

Where did the name “Atlantic Ocean” actually come from? The answer leads back to ancient Greek mythology, early maps, and centuries of exploration. Long before modern geography, this ocean was ...

For nearly a hundred years, historians and archaeologists have argued over one basic question about ancient Greece: how did ...