Our understanding of Ancient Greece relies on the few surviving books, among the countless lost ones, shaping what we know ...

Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...

Where ancient Dionysian traditions and historical resistance blend in the vibrant 'Genitsaroi and Boules' celebration ...

“G reek literature contains the germs of almost everything, so you can treat of almost all tendencies in treating of it,” the Hellenist Gilbert Murray wrote in the year 1900. One and a quarter ...

THE notion of the antiquary current among many educated people is still that which Scott has illustrated and immortalized in the person of Mr. Oldbuck of Monkbarns, a man full of trifles and hobbies, ...

Professor of Ancient Greek History Paul Christesen joins WIRED to answer your questions from Twitter. What do we know about the original Olympics? How did Ancient Greece elect leaders? Is the film ...

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This article is featured in the 2025 Freshman Special Issue. If you’re new to campus, you might look at the Greek letters on the sides of buildings up and down Webster Avenue and wonder what goes on ...