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

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

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 ...

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

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

Sappho was a poet whose work was held to great acclaim by the philosopher ... One of the most famous stories of women in ancient Greece was a society of warrior women known as the Amazons.

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 ...

Legend credits the method’s invention to the ancient Greek poet Simonides of Ceos, who escaped a collapsing building in the fifth century B.C.E.