the earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, to Sappho’s later lyric poetry, many writers left a mark on ancient Greece’s early poetic tradition. Homer’s millennia-old Iliad and Odyssey ...

The mythological origins of how we understand queer love between women lays the perfect foundation for Lucy Dacus’ fourth ...

In recent years, awareness surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and the importance of inclusivity has grown exponentially. Amid the push ...

An ancient Greek poet from the island Lesbos, Sappho’s identity has famously brought about the labels ‘lesbian’ and ‘sapphic’, epitomising her influence on the modern world; her work ...

McLane was a National Book Award finalist for her collection “This Blue,” her work merges past and present, drawing on ...

The entire trilogy, really—“The Oresteia”—is infamous among classicists for its difficulty in the original Greek: rare words ... I considered writing about Sappho or Euripides instead—writers who, ...

One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they ...

A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological artifacts to prove it. Finds in the region have long hinted at a once-thriving settlement, with the latest ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.