To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

Seek your lover in the daytime, says Ovid. Be careful of the night. You won't choose the right person if you're drunk. And ...

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

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Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

The ancient Greeks were no exception. They used a range of techniques ... religion due to the accounts written by the historian Herodotus, fifth century BCE poet Pindar, and the second century CE ...

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After witnessing a crucial episode of the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that, set to the melody of an 18th-century English drinking song, captured the patriotic picture of the American ...

The centenary of the Swiss poet and translator Philippe Jaccottet, winner of both the Schiller and Goncourt literary prizes, ...

On the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, rap battles are performed to the accompaniment of lute and fiddle. The head-to-head competitions between poets are called “tsiattista” and performers ...