A critical overview of the field of classics, and a memoir of a half century studying antiquity.

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Under different circumstances, we would be discussing the scientific value and the weight of the proposal it presents.

Classical scholar and the first woman to be appointed regius professor of Greek at Cambridge University

Remembering Professor Pat Easterling FBA (1934 – 2026)

Cambridge Core - Greece & Rome - Volume 73 - Issue 2

Classicist and author Natalie Haynes joins us to discuss the trials and joys of learning about ancient Greece and its mythology.

Exploring a transformative time in ancient Greece, the exhibition sheds new light on the cultural interactions between Greeks and diverse cultures from West Asia and the Balkans to North Africa and…

It was one of the finest pieces of art ever bought by the Met. But it had come from an Italian grave robber. In 1975, the BBC investigated the global trade in stolen antiquities.

The Greek Culture Ministry plans a unified archaeological park at Pythagoreio on Samos, connecting key monuments and improving visitor access.

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, generally known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the…

with Caroline Lawrence and Lorna Lee Can you give us a brief outline of what readers can expect from your story? Caroline: It is a short retelling of Virgil’s Aeneid from the point of view of Aenea…

This innovative production combines Sophocles’ revenge play with Ingmar Bergman’s film to explore ideas of identity and performativity.

A contemporary chamber opera reimagines the Greek myth with Bauhaus aesthetics and dark comedy at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival.

In "Irruption of Antiquity," the surreal paintings of Aleksandra Waliszewska infiltrate the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture in Athens.

In a marble workshop in Mets, an Athens neighborhood, tourists are trading sightseeing for chisels. For about a year, the Georgiou family, third-generation sculptors, has opened its workshop to…

Ancient Greece meets modern music at Parthenon Nashville, where the Nine Muses and the 2,000-year-old Seikilos Epitaph.

Emily Wilson's new translation of The Iliad offers fresh insights into an ancient text – she discusses Homer's epic poem with the author Natalie Haynes.

The stuff of legends.

Richard Strauss’s knotty opera about the myth of Ariadne is stripped back and streamlined in a witty staging that allows the music – and the outstanding cast – to shine

A little known museum in Reading is hoping the blockbuster Christopher Nolan...

For nearly 3,000 years, Homer’s “The Odyssey” has reigned as literature’s ultimate road trip.

White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.

Book sales and audiobook figures for Homer's original poem rise sharply after the film's release.

Homer’s great epic looks back to the age of the Trojan War, but it was composed centuries after the world it describes had vanished. That distance, argues classicist Daisy Dunn on the HistoryExtra…

The mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods may soon join UNESCO’s World Heritage List

How the director turned Homer’s Odyssey into a surprisingly intimate film.

Across Wine-Dark Seas: Art and Identity beyond Ancient Greece presents more than 180 exceptional works produced during this time

Matt Damon’s sensitive and repentant Odysseus might come as a surprise to Homer, likewise some significant omissions concerning the poem’s female characters

A researcher from Coventry University is helping lead a major new study into the lives of ordinary people in ancient Greece, moving the historical spotlight

Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and contentious – today.

There is a beach on Ithaca’s rocky coast, a place where the rock pools the water and if you stand and look the water is clear and green as a wine bottle. There are starfish and the black prickle of…

Just back from watching Christopher Nolan’s much-hyped and long-awaited cinematic adaptation of The Odyssey, so I wanted to get a few thoughts down quickly because my goldfish brain doesn’t h…

A towering figure in British culture and a prominent, modern-day philhellene, Stephen Fry talks to Kathimerini about his ‘Odyssey.’