Greece’s greenest island, Corfu, welcomes visitors with the sweet aroma of pine and lemon trees while olive groves descend to ...

Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in the ancient town of Delphi. Most people lived in villages or in the countryside. Many Greeks were poor and life was hard ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these ... have lived not in the city but in the surrounding countryside, and only about 35,000 men would have been ...