Catastrophe at Smyrna
Matthew Stewart traces the roots of the Greco-Turkish war of 1921-22, and the consequent refugee crisis, to the postwar settlements of 1919-20.
Greece
Power Dressing in Ancient Greece and Rome
Jeri DeBrohun looks at the meanings expressed in the style of clothes and personal adornment adopted by men and women in the ancient world.
The Greek Civil War Ends
After three years, the conflict came to an end on October 16th, 1949.
The Kerameikos of Athens
Graham Shipley meets the dead in a Greek cemetery - an oasis of classicism in modern Athens.
Food as a Symbol in Classical Greece
'You are what you eat' was as relevant an observation for the ancients as for more modern thinkers, argues Helen King
Greece, Ancient and Modern - Subsistence and Survival
'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'... many of the agricultural practices described in the art and literature of classical Greece persist to the present day.
The City States of Classical Greece
N.E.R. Fisher surveys the historiographical treatments of these ancient democratic states, in this month's Reading History.