The daily life in Ancient Greece revolved around work, family, education, and religion, shaping a civilization that still ...

A new study has revealed that Greeks, Italians, and Phoenicians coexisted on the island of Ischia (now part of Italy), nearly 2,800 years ago, making it one of the earliest multicultural hubs in the ...

much more so than any of its Greek counterparts, though with its emphasis on foreign conquest it did share some similarities with Sparta. Rome's great rival was Carthage, a Phoenician colony in ...

Euboean Greeks established the colony of Pithekoussai on Ischia, which became the first Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean Sea and a melting pot of cultural groups. On the island, Greek, ...

Carthage developed its own unique culture that mixed elements from Phoenicia, Greece and Rome, and North Africa. The Carthaginians spoke a dialect of the Phoenician language that became known as ...

Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC ... as well as two other important plays about the roles of women: The Phoenician Women and The Bacchae. The leading comic author of Athens ...