Discover how Melina Mercouri’s 1982 UNESCO speech launched Greece’s international campaign for the return of the Parthenon ...
More than 2,000 years ago, the myth of Narcissus gave us a word we still use today. Here's the story behind "narcissist." ...
Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that's a bilingual text, like the Rosetta ...
Control of the Oracle of Delphi was a key issue in Ancient Greece, and various cities and coalitions fought over it during ...
In 2025, Dr Bharat Gupt, the 79-year-old classicist, musicologist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar exponent, cultural ...
Ludwig Göransson’s soundtrack for Christopher Nolan’s film resurrects an ancient instrument, the aulos, to evoke the ...
From the lost sequel to the poem's oral roots, here are five things you might not know about the origins and mystique surrounding Homer's epic poem, the 'Odysse ...
Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient Greek sculptors, in a well-established tradition. But how did Greek painters work? Let ...