From the sleek, deadly triremes to the colossal tessarakonteres, ancient Greek ships inspired modern ship design.

Laconic Greek, the dialect once spoken by the ancient Spartans, is one of the most fascinating examples of linguistic endurance. Despite centuries of historical upheavals, conquests, and the dominance ...

The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama returns this summer with impressive, contemporary renditions of long-standing tales. Once again, top-tier theatre companies have been chosen to ...

Elizabeth Banks thinks her new murder-mystery show “The Better Sister” has a few things in common with Shakespeare. “I felt ...

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because ... then you must believe all the mechanics of tragedy that Mike is about to lay on you. This week, we're looking at ...

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson (she of the 2015 film Room and Apple TV+’s Lessons In Chemistry), it’s a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy ...

Israel’s ongoing struggle with Hamas and Hezbollah provides a stark example of this tragic ... In the plays of the ancient Greek dramatists, tragedy often emerges from the clash between ...

Throughout Poetics, Aristotle provides numerous examples from Greek tragedies ... the overall realism and effectiveness of the tragedy. In ancient Greek drama, melody referred to the musical ...

I was initially swept up in the affinity of belonging that often accompanies membership in one of Cornell’s Greek organizations ... in late 2022 is a salient example of the worst of predatory ...

Oedipus himself, at the close of his eponymous tragedy, blinds and exiles himself ... George Santos comes to mind as an absurdly extreme example – what would Shakespeare have done with him?