Ancient Greece makes a comeback (as modern one mired in crisis)
Publisher: The Conversation
Author: Michael Scott
Our current turn towards ancient Greece touches on a fundamental nerve in modern society.
Parthenon marbles: Greece's claim is nationalist rhetoric that deserves to fail
Publisher: the Guardian
Author: Jonathan Jones
The Greek restitution case is romantic, sure, but doomed – and false. Imagine the chaos if all countries, from Italy to Turkey, started demanding treasures back
Naked ambition: when the Greeks first stripped off
Publisher: the Guardian
Author: James Davidson
We are so used to nude statues their strangeness escapes us. Was this exposure of the body to do with sex, athletics, war or virtue? James Davidson visits Defining Beauty, the stunning new exhibition of the body in Greek art
Tragedy for ancient Greek at last non-selective state school
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: James Meikle
As Camden School for Girls ponders dropping the subject due to financial pressures, teachers in its classics department have issued an appeal for help
Conversing with the divine – why we still need our muses
Publisher: The Conversation
Author: Alastair Blanshard
Olivia Newton-John has a lot to answer for. Even now, after 35 years has passed, it is hard to forgive her for her role in Xanadu, a film consistently voted as the worst film of 1980. This is quite an…
12 Gifts Ancient Greece Gave To The World
Publisher: The Huffington Post
Author: Alena Hall
It's easy to forget just how much credit we owe the brilliant minds of ancient Greece.
Sappho: two previously unknown poems indubitably hers, says scholar
Publisher: the Guardian
Author: Charlotte Higgins
University of Oxford papyrologist convinced poems preserved on ancient papyrus are by seventh-century lyricist of Lesbos
Epic odyssey to translate Homer
Publisher: Stuff
Author: Boris Jancic
A Ngaio resident has just finished the epic challenge of translating and illustrating Homer's Odyssey.
The one place where it’s possible to truly see the night sky
Publisher: Aeon
Author: Ross Andersen
The ancients had pyramids to tame the sky’s mystery. We have Star Axis, a masterpiece forty years in the making
Ancient Greece, the Middle East and an ancient cultural internet
Publisher: the Guardian
Author: Charlotte Higgins
The ancient Greek world is being recast from an isolated entity to one of many hybrid cultures in Africa and in the East