Tufts University, January 13-14, 2010. “Rediscovering Homer: Manuscript Digitization and the Homer Multitext Project.” 18th Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference. University of Patras, Greece, ...

Credit: Jean Le Tavernier / Public Domain The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world’s first encyclopedias and lexicons. Created as both a ...

This concept was far from clear for ancient Athenians. Instead, it has been a subject of intellectual conflict from antiquity to modern times. He disagrees with the traditional view of justice, which ...

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

Archaeologists uncovered the ancient Greek agora of Hyllarima in Turkey, revealing ancient Hellenistic shops and public ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

A recent excavation at Greece's Floga archaeological site revealed ancient artifacts, including marble sculptures and pottery, demonstrating the site's use as a Classical period workshop.

This Greek cup, dating from around 510 B.C., depicts an Amazon warrior on a horse. Scholars suggest wording on the vase names the woman Worthy of Armor in ancient Circassian.

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the Trojan Horse, outwitted the Cyclops, and resisted the deadly call of the ...

Evidence that Hesiod came before Homer Several sources from the fourth century BCE place Hesiod earlier than Homer. One notable source for this idea is Ephorus of Cyme, a Greek historian who lived ...