Ancient Greeks viewed dreams as divine messages, omens or natural phenomena, with interpretations from Homer, Plato, Aristotle and others.

Discover the story of Perseus, one of the most famous heroes in Greek mythology, as this video explores the facts and legends ...

Personal history emerges by painful degrees in “Oedipus,” whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, “wreck ...

Plan out which events you will attend during the city's three-day literature festival next weekend.

Halcyon is a word used to describe peaceful and calm periods, often from the past, and is commonly seen in writing that ...

As the horror movie "Sinners" stands poised to sweep the Oscars, we take a look at how and why the vampire genre has long ...

“His name would probably have been in Aramaic: Yeshua.” That innocuous sentence, which Professor Dineke Houtman has provided, is a silent subversion: the common English term of address, “Jesus,” was ...

Authors and books such as Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (2018), Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018), and Natalie Haynes’ A Thousand Ships (2019) are just a few of the innumerable examples of ...

Its basic sense, going back many centuries, is “obtain” or “acquire,” with a direct object, as in get a job or get a haircut.

The cultural establishment in Egypt do not consider Arabic calligraphy to be an example of pictorial art. When Attaturk ...

The party’s pro-British coziness, which had once bought them limited leverage, proved to be a fatal flaw as the tide of nationalism rose. While the Justice Party denounced Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation as ...

The ancient Greeks used to make a wide variety of breads, as they considered it to be of great importance in their eating habits.