Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Epic poetry has long captured the essence of the human experience – and an international conference in Athens is drawing ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...

The Greek island of Ithaca is bursting with history from ancient antiquity but also boasts some incredible views and secluded ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we're dead ...

An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial ...

"The Odyssey" follows the Greek champion Odysseus on his tumultuous journey home after the Trojan War. The story was first scribed by the ancient Greek poet Homer over 2,000 years ago and is one of ...