Aletes was Hercules’ descendant who seized the ancient Greek city of Corinth. His name evolved into a modern term for "outlaw ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

Celebrating the cunning victory of the ancient Greeks against the ancient Trojans, the Krewe of Dorians retold the epic military tale at its ball Friday at The Orpheum Theatre.

Why the name “Dorian”? The ancient Greeks built their music around a series of modes, or scales, one of which was the Dorian mode. The students who formed the Dorian Singing Society at Luther College ...

Pythagoras, the famous Greek scientist, had a fascinating but largely unknown ancestry which connects him to Greek mythology.

Ancient Thera is ranked #8 out of 13 things to do in Santorini. ... This archaeological site, which was first claimed by the Dorians (ancient Greeks) in the 9th century B.C., ...

Dorian entered the roster after Hurricane Dean caused 32 direct deaths in 2007, ... In history, the Dorians were a group of people in Ancient Greece named after the mythological figure Dorus.

The ancient Greeks had a series of rituals related to war and combat. Among them are war dances, of which the oldest and best known, thanks to sources and art, is the Pyrrhichios (πυρρίχιος, Pyrrhic ...

Ancient Greece typically brings to mind robes and columns and people inventing democracy. That’s fine, but it arguably involves people who weren’t originally Greek.

The ancient Dorian Greeks were justifiably famous for many achievements: the ferocity of their legendary armies, the invention of highly stylized “Attica” pottery, poetry that was the very germ of ...

The word ‘mode’ comes from the Latin for ‘manner, or method’ but musical modes all originated in ancient Greece, so they have Greek names. ... Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and ...