If you’re staying in Athens for a few days, buy a combined €30 (£27) ticket, valid for five days, that also gives you access to the Ancient and Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library, the temple of ...

A mix of ancient divinities ... There were shrines to Aphrodite in the Athenian Agora, where the birds she loved, doves (the Greek name for dove, peristera, almost certainly derives from the ...

Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by the Saronic Gulf. Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ...

Athens wears its long history lightly — you’ll even find locals sunbathing beside an ancient ... weekly laiki agora (people’s market), a local ritual that’s as much street theatre as ...

The Ministry of Culture, through the competent Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens ... via Asomaton Street, and the archaeological site through a new entrance. For the Ancient Agora, the aim ...

Every week, a frankly silly amount of brilliant new restaurants, cafés and street food joints arrive ... s in Finsbury Park, Oma and Agora’s Greek-ish cuisine in Borough Market, rightly hyped ...

The funerary stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares, an ancient Greek marble relief from Vari, near Athens,is a stunning example ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...