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
Obama and Xi Must Think Broadly to Avoid a Classic Trap
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: Graham T. Allison Jr.
Thucydides saw the catastrophic dangers when a standing power fears the rise of a challenger.
Ethics and War in Homer's Iliad | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Publisher: Carnegie Council
Author: Joel Rosenthal
Are the values we bring to war today really the same as they were back in the days of the warring Greeks and Trojans? Or have we evolved morally, as Steven Pinker and others believe? The evidence leads to an answer of yes and no.
