EDUCATION to an ordinary person means no more than the process of passing across and imbibing or learning the practices, ways of life and arts of one’s fore-bearers usually orally or through ...

Theophrastus, was an ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Aristotle and became the father of botany. What was his ...

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields and armour – when people imagine ancient Rome, they often think of its ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Seek your lover in the daytime, says Ovid. Be careful of the night. You won't choose the right person if you're drunk. And ...

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language.

Marvel clearly doesn't feel like it can compete with ancient Greek literature, as Spider-Man 4 catches a delay to presumably make way for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Though it's only a small ...

Modern Greek poetry is strange to the Anglicised west, but the Classics, which include ancient Greek poetry, are at the very foundations of modern literatures in English. The Renaissance brought ...