A couple of weeks ago, my Faculty in Cambridge launched one of its youngest offspring – in the shape of a new dictionary of ancient Greek, which has been about twenty-five years in the making. It was ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation slowly emerged again. The Greeks started trading more with the outside world ...

Greek cities had beautiful temples with stone columns and statues, and open-air theatres where people sat to watch plays. Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in ...