Xenophon’s tachygraphy captured Socratic dialogues, influencing Greek shorthand and ensuring the preservation of the spoken ...
The notion that it was so easy to visit the underworld was parodied as early as Aristophanes, who in his play The Frogs ...
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen is a profound horror story that inspired Lovecraft, and yet it's never gotten the ...
Anthony formed a troupe with his buddies, and they chose a play called “Tangled Up Feet” from Mexico. The story revolved around a group of people who wake up one morning to find their feet have become ...
Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...
Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...
The Kandahar Sophytos Inscription, written in refined Greek in the 2nd century BCE, reveals the deep reach of Hellenistic culture in ancient Afghanistan and tells the personal story of a merchant who ...
Athens is a city of beautiful contradictions. Michelin-starred dining rooms share sidewalk space with decades-old taverns.