A new discovery by a British archaeologist of Cambridge University reveals that there was a thriving pop culture in Ancient ...

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The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

People gathered in a warm, intimate room in the North End facing a table with an open bottle of wine in the back for anyone that was interested. The night began with an invitation to the open mic, and ...

Archaeologists found the clay tablet, which likely dates to the Roman era, near the remains of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia. Ministry Of Culture and Sports The oldest known written record of Homer’s ...

Any spark which ignites, becomes a song, a painting, a perfect sentence, needs air to flourish — to exist at all. Scott Cairns has kindled the warm, baritone fires of poetry for decades; and in his ...

Until recently, Posidippus, a Greek poet who worked in Egypt during the third century BC, was scarcely anyone’s idea of an important writer. To be sure, he enjoyed a measure of success during his ...

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Founded in 1955, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival is Greece’s foremost cultural festival and one of the oldest performing arts festivals in Europe. The Epidaurus performances are presented every ...