Megas Alexandros

Alexander the Great was here, and so was I by Leonidas Argyraspid (ISBN 9789090339016) is obviously my own work. The book, as a   matter ...

It’s amazing to hear what fishermen can catch in their nets, but nobody would imagine hauling up a heavy bronze statue from antiquity. Thi...

Driving around in northern Greece , roughly between Thessaloniki and Seres on the Turkish border, I often came across rice fields. I coul...

Alexander ’s death triggered the beginning of the Hellenistic era. On several occasions, I lingered on the representations of Buddha in huma...

Each year again the British celebrate their Remembrance Day with great pride. Inevitably my thoughts drift off to Alexander and what he wo...

Aristophanes  was a rather prolific comedy writer, who lived from ca. 446 to ca. 386 BC. An amazing eleven of his forty plays have survived ...

A while ago, the bronze statue of  The Boxer at Rest  made headlines in The Greek Reporter . It  certainly is one of the most lifelike and r...

It is always a pleasure to read good news. The Archaeology News Network has a great article about five rare coins rescued from being auctio...

The discovery of a mosaic floor found underneath a house or a vineyard in Italy seems to be recurrent news. I have read a couple of such ar...

  The Getty Villa in Malibu , California is more than a museum. The premises offer a priceless insight into daily life as it was during the...