Five high-ranking Greek government officials, including a minister and three deputies, resigned on Friday following allegations of involvement in corruption over the mismanagement of European ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five high-ranking Greek government officials, including a minister and three deputy ministers, resigned Friday following allegations of involvement in corruption over the ...

Five Greek government officials, including a minister, have resigned over allegations of corruption involving EU farming subsidies. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses officials of ...

It’s a substantial task. The world of the ancient polis (plural: poleis) was vast, far greater than the rivalry between Athens and Sparta, far greater than the peninsula of Greece.

What exactly is an oligarchy, anyway? The concept of oligarchy goes back to ancient Greek philosophy.

What is a democracy anyway? In the current political climate, the media and politicians throw around many terms. Words like “oligarchy” and “fascism” appear everywhere in the news, but they are rarely ...

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events.

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government on Saturday welcomed a credit rating upgrade by Moody’s, the last major ratings agency to lift junk status on government bonds that ...

Greece’s center-right government has welcomed a credit rating upgrade by Moody’s, the last major ratings agency to lift junk status on government bonds that began 15 years ago during a severe ...

The huge movement sparked by Greece’s Tempi rail crash and subsequent government cover-up are a dramatic confirmation of this analysis.

What Is An Oligarchy? Greek philosopher Aristotle defined oligarchy as a corrupt form of government when a small group of elites uses power to advance their own interests rather than the common good.