Discover the first song to reach number one for 10 weeks on the singles chart, and how it set a new record in music and chart ...

This Shakespeare dramatized. And this we are once again in danger of forgetting. Is a NATO-Russia war over Ukraine likely? Not today. But is it still possible? More than most Western leaders are ...

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

The summertime is peak season for ancient Greek theatre and the majority of performances present contemporary adaptations in Greek. One upcoming production this July will present Elektra from ...

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

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 ...