Even though his works have been lost in time, Lasus is remembered as an innovator and a revolutionary artistic figure. He is believed to be one of the main personalities who transformed the dithyramb, ...

This summer marks the fourth time Court Theatre has mounted Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad.” Based on Robert ...

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics ...

In his poem “Ithaka,” the Greek writer C.P. Cavafy offers both sympathy and wisdom to Odysseus, Homer’s hero, as he returns ...

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...

According to the historical and linguistic evidence, was Homer really more ancient than Hesiod, or did Hesiod actually come ...

BCE, a poetess named Sappho lived on a rocky Greek island far out in the Aegean Sea. She wrote about her love for women in ...

The White Barn will pay tribute to the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Cavafy, a journalist as well as a poet who remained mostly unknown during his lifetime ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

Discusses Greek lyric poetry, focusing on its emotional depth and the techniques used by poets like Cicus and Sappho to convey complex feelings through word harmony, rhythm, and vivid imagery.