CLASSICS Odyssey Stephen Fry Michael Joseph $36.99. The mad dash of December is almost over and we’re all racing towar ...

Gods and goddesses join the fray and continue to drive the tides of war. Paris tries to end the bloody battle in a single one ...

Ah, the myth that launched a thousand ships. The apple thrown into the middle of a greek banquet would ruin lives and lay ...

The end of The Iliad is marked by two funerals and a rage. In the 23rd book of the epic poem, the great Greek hero Achilles ... every ICSE-educated kid’s first introduction to him – including ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I fear the Greeks even when ...

That line of the Latin epic has, over the millennia, morphed into a familiar saying: “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” And indeed, there are so many Greek ... the first great drama about ...

As Heinrich Schliemann's spade pierced the earth of a royal shaft grave, it revealed a golden mask—its surface gleaming even ...

Emily Wilson’s invocation in her translation of Homer’s “Odyssey” ends: “Now goddess, child of Zeus, tell the old story for our modern times. Find the beginning.” Musician Joe Goodkin’s recent visit ...

Like all other public schools, state law requires them to teach anyone who shows up — first come, first served ... They read ...

Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, is getting a brand new subway system that will celebrate why the project was held up for decades. The system is built to show off important ...

Gladiator is one of my top five movies of all time,” says Rupp, who teaches Greek and Roman archeology ... and if you crossed the line with the wrong person, they would find a way to get rid of you.

The first queen in the area to rule as a sovereign and issue her own currency was the Greek Queen Agathoclea of Punjab ... including Cleopatra Thea of the Ptolemaic line, who would rule for the ...