Ancient Greeks feared beaches, seeing them as barren and linked to death, unlike today’s peaceful coastal escapes.

Greek literature discounts all the positive sensations of the beach and the sea and focuses on the negative ones in order to stress the discomfort the ancient Greeks felt about the beach and the sea ...

Several anti-Israel activists can be seen dropping fliers and spraying graffiti in the kosher Israeli-owned King David Burger restaurant in Athens, Greece, in an act of antisemitic vandalism, on ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece imposed mandatory work breaks on Monday in parts of the country where temperatures are expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), with ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters battled blazes Thursday near Athens and on the island of Crete, where thousands were forced to flee holiday resorts, while blazes in neighboring Turkey claimed ...