In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

Eager to shock, Diogenes hectored refined Athenians in the market square. Plato dubbed him a Socrates gone made.

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

Few scenes in the Christian imagination are as iconic as the three travelers kneeling before the infant Jesus, their camels ...

Decades of conflict and displacement have obliterated the history of one of the world’s oldest human settlements ...

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, an outbreak of anti-Macedonian feeling swept Athens, forcing Aristotle ...

COMMENTARY: Marking the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the Pope contrasts orthodox faith with the claims of ...

Paganism” is a word with which to conjure. From The Iliad to the Wicker Man, it has been part of Western culture, and has in ...

1 person dead after drive-by shooting on Friday, police seek suspect information One person is dead after a drive-by shooting Friday night at a home near 50th Street N. and N. Boulder Avenue. Former ...

For centuries before the conquest of Greece, the Romans admired and copied their neighbors. They deeply admired the famed Greek art, their philosophy, and literature, all of which highly influenced ...

DUP MLA for South Antrim Trevor Clarke took to his Facebook page with the following post: I nearly fell off my chair this morning when I heard on the Nolan Show that the Alliance Party’s Chair of the ...