The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish. There’s a reason many of us know the word for “marketplace”(agora) in ancient Greek, ...

Aristophanes of Byzantium is credited with inventing the signs for Greek accents, breathings and vowel lengths, according to a single source: a short text found in two 16th-century Paris manuscripts.