Long before books and digital libraries, Ancient Greece relied on memory and voice to keep its stories alive. At the heart of ...

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 ...

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 poet lived in ancient Greece and composed such meaningful works that they remain mainstays of classic literature nearly three millennia later. Likely composed in the 7th or 8th century B.C., ...

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, ...

Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. This article originally appeared in Th e Conversation.. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 ...

Rhapsodes were the master storytellers of Ancient Greece who memorized and performed thousands of lines of Homer's works.