Abaris the Hyperborean, a mystical priest of Apollo, was famed for his supernatural powers, prophetic gifts and healing powers.

A Miami poet discusses her Zip Ode poem about buying her own stolen bike, and how she views this as a quintessential Miami ...

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who, in the early 20th century, founded the Futurist movement and later contributed to the founding of fascism.

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

He was one of the most important figures in the history of cinema, a personality who transcended the boundaries of his art and managed to turn cinema into poetry, a meditation on history, memory and ...

Discusses Greek lyric poetry, focusing on its emotional depth and the techniques used by poets like Cicus and Sappho to convey complex feelings through word harmony, rhythm, and vivid imagery.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek charity has been treating dozens of orphaned, sick and injured Mediterranean monk seals, rare marine mammals whose population had dwindled so dramatically that the ...

Epic poetry is one of the most important and fascinating literary genres in ancient Greek literature, and has had a profound effect on later reception of Greek and the Greeks. During this course we ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

Her reading would provide an image of a specific racial experience told through the lens of Greek myth, while also navigating a line where the racial experience isn’t the only message to be taken from ...