Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Our BA Classics course will let you study Greek and/or Latin language and literature. You will also explore the political, social, and intellectual history of the ancient Greek and Roman societies.

Main façade of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Credit: Venicescapes, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark’s Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a ...

The Ancient Greek Piraeus Lion, which is now in Venice. Credit: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0 Venice is a city whose history conjures up all sorts of images, memories and feelings, ...

The oldest is from 895 A.D., a gap of over 1,200 years. Aside from the Bible, the ancient work with the greatest number of copies is Homer’s “Iliad,” created around 800 B.C.

The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity Homer’s Iliad, one of the most celebrated and studied epic poems in history, has long resisted successful adaptation. While it has ...

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.