Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

Konstantine Panegyres reveals what finding love was like in Ancient Greece and Rome - and what lessons we can take into the ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is set to be a star-studded retelling of Homer's epic poem, and we're here to keep track of ...

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

Since the first exchanges between India and Greece, the ancient Greeks were fascinated by the stories of India's mysterious gymnosophists.

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

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise ...

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

Homer (c. 8th–7th century BC) is one of the most renowned poets of ancient Greece and is traditionally credited with composing two of the most significant epic poems in Western literature: The Iliad ...

Aristotle’s Poetics has arguably influenced modern culture more than any other ancient text. The Greek philosopher’s 4th century BCE treatise on what constitutes the best form of poetry is our ...

The British colonisers who travelled to India from the 18th century onwards were steeped in the Classics; they knew their Greek and Latin (if not the languages of India) and quoted liberally from ...