Archaeologists home in on Homeric clues as Turkey declares year of Troy
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Kareem Shaheen
Work is accelerating at site on Hisarlık Hill, formerly a ‘ruin of a ruin’, and a museum will open next year
Football fans and eunuch priests –
Publisher: TheTLS
Author: Mary Beard
Before I went to Madrid a couple of weeks ago, I had heard about the eighteenth-century statue and fountain of the goddess Cybele (otherwise known as Magna Mater) in Madrid’s central square (outside what is now the city hall). I hadn’t realised until I saw it quite how imposing it is — or quite how similar …
A Byzantine ancestor to same-sex marriage?
Publisher: The Conversation
Author: Mark Masterson
The medieval Byzantine Empire might hold some lessons about tolerance and same-sex marriage.
The uncertain origins of the modern marathon
Publisher: The Conversation
Author: James Kierstead
The story behind the marathon is more complicated than it seems.
3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry
Publisher: The Telegraph
Author: Sarah Knapton
A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today.
Democracy is a clash not a consensus: why we need the agora
Publisher: Aeon
Author: Saul Frampton
Democracy, by nature, is a contest between clashing political desires. That is why the public square matters so much
Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world? – Maria Michela Sassi | Essays
Publisher: Aeon
Author: Maria Michela Sassi
The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea?
Why is Everyone Suddenly Quoting Thucydides?
Publisher: American Greatness
Author: Victor David Hansen
Currently, the historian Thucydides is the object of debate among those within the Trump Administration and its critics, who, like scholars of the last three millennia, focus on lots of differing Thucydidean personas. Did Thucydides warn in deterministic
Novelizing Greek Myth
Publisher: The New Yorker
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
Colm Tóibín’s “House of Names” tries to out-Euripides Euripides.
Even the ancient Greeks thought their best days were history
Publisher: Aeon
Author: Johanna Hanink
This May, Greece’s parliament passed yet another austerity bill in the hopes of securing more European debt relief. For nearly seven and a half years, creditors have held the country in an economic stranglehold. Along the way, they’ve offered a se...