Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and ...

This course examines ancient Greek tragedy in translation. It looks at the transformation of myth into tragedy in the fifth century BCE and reflects on why these classical dramas remain popular today.

Robert Caro's epic life of Lyndon Johnson, now running ... by side and then comparing them in a short essay. (Twenty-two such pairs survive.) Thus, for example, he contrasts the Greek orator ...

Dating back to 1400 BC, the Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece, and in theory all Greeks respected its independence. Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered ...