Although probably the greatest runner of ancient Greece, it was not Phidippides who ran what we call a marathon. The modern sport of marathon running comes from another runner's return from the ...

The Fat Lady of Saliagos (also known as The Naked Lady of Saliagos) is the oldest known Cycladic sculpture. It is a marble ...

Two killed in Greece as wildfire rages near seaside town - Greek authorities say two people have died overnight ...

This is a noble discipline, since, as the author writes, “in the background of every historian’s work is his own contemporary ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from ... to run at them in full armor during the battles of Marathon in 490 and Plataea 479. These hoplite runs ...

Greektown Chicago celebrates the Marathon's ancient origins with events as the Chicago Marathon passes through the historic ...

Sorry, we can't find any flight deals from Marathon to Greece right now.Find a flight How did we find these deals? We looked at every economy class flight to from ...

Lost in a maze could be a scene straight out of my recurring nightmare. But not so when located amidst lush olive groves in the Messinia region on Greece’s southwest Peloponnese coast. My wife and I ...

The Spartathlon is a historic ultra-distance foot race that takes place in September of every year in Greece. Starting close ...

Unlike in ancient Greece, women get to vote ... Legend tells of Pheidippides, who fought at the battle of Marathon. When the Greeks won, he ran 26 miles (42 km) to Athens with the news ...

If you’re looking for a reason to book your next vacation, it’s somewhere on this list. By Matthew Huff You deserve a vacation. Better yet, you deserve a runcation. Call up your favorite dog sitter, ...

A“myth of the past” is necessary to justify “contemporary preoccupations,” writes Oswyn Murray, an emeritus fellow at Oxford. This is a profound realization, and it leads the author to a ...