Only a few poems of the Greek poetess Sappho’s work have survived but thanks to a leading scholar’s investigation two new works have just been recovered—and gives experts hope to find more.

Even though his works have been lost in time, Lasus is remembered as an innovator and a revolutionary artistic figure. He is ...

A Grand Valley State University classics professor is receiving national attention for her new book, which offers the first English translation of Greek poetry not seen by the public in 2,000 years.

New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd Century CE, 300 years ...

Greek and Latin poetry, then, are based on the organization of light and heavy syllables into feet. For example, light-heavy is an iamb, heavy-light is a trochee, heavy-light-light is a dactyl ...

In the days of the ancient Greeks, poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Morning Edition is reviving that tradition with the Poetry Games. We've invited poets ...

But my work as a scholar of ancient Greek literature has shown me how much harder it was to be a mother in antiquity. The ancient Greeks may not have had the kind of Mother’s Day celebrated in the ...

The word ϕυσιζοοs occurs only five times in ancient Greek poetry; twice it is applied to Castor and Pollux, who shared, as we all know, an alternate resurrection (Iliad iii, ...