IN any survey of Greek poetry, epic, lyric, and dramatic, one may see how, in each successive phase, it was the voice of Greek life. The very word “literature” is fraught with associations which tend ...

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 2 nd Century CE, 300 years earlier ...

As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is far too little to recognize everything mothers do. But my work as a scholar of ancient Greek literature has ...

In the days of the ancient Greeks, poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Poets sang the praises of athletic champions and, at some festivals, even competed in ...

Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between “muscle and mind” Ellen Wexler - Assistant Editor, Humanities At the ancient Olympics in Greece, ...