Herodotus

College Year in Athens will host a lecture on the clash between agrarian life and military demands in ancient Greece on Wednesday at 7 p.m.  

The 2,200-year-old ancient city of Aigai was one of the 12 Ionian cities mentioned by Herodotus. It is sometimes known as "Nemrut Castle." The city was a significant center of trade in the Hellenistic era and it is home to the Temple of Athena.

The judges of the prestigious Runciman Award for books about Greece have unveiled their long list of 21 titles for the 2021 installment of the event, which is scheduled to be held in London on June 17, as part of the UK's celebration of the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence.

"Forgetfulness and Historical Thinking in Herodotus against the Background of the Greek Literary Tradition" is the title of a lecture that Dr Carlos Hernandez Garces will deliver at the Norwegian Institute at Athens on Tuesday, January 28.

More than 2,500 years ago, an Athenian nobleman named Cylon -- the first recorded Olympic champion -- tried to take over the city of Athens and install himself as its sole ruler.

According to Thucydides and Herodotus, Athenian and Greek historians who wrote about the coup, Cylon enticed an army of followers to enter the city and lay siege to the Acropolis.

Artifacts that were unearthed in 1882 by French researcher Michel Armand Clerc in the ancient city of Aigai in the western province of Manisa are currently being displayed at Paris' Louvre Museum.