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.

It is useful to think of the literature of Ancient Greece in three phases. It begins with Homer and Hesiod, masters of the “epic” poem, and ends with the dramatists and the prose of the philosophers ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

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 ...

Explore what it means to be human today by studying what it meant to be a hero in ancient Greek times. In this introduction to ancient Greek culture and literature, learners will experience, in ...

The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...

An ancient Greek relief depicting a baby with its mother and grandmother. David Lees/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is ...

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 ...

MY first words must be an apology for the title of this paper. It may seem a rather arrogant theme for a professor of Greek to lay before modern readers. But the truth is that I do not for a moment ...