Last Wednesday, Chicago-based musician and composer Joe Goodkin was invited to perform from his album “The Blues of Achilles,” his award winning musical adaptation of “The Iliad." On Wednesday, the ...

The Ancient Greeks had eight words that corresponded to different types of love: The first kind of love is Eros, named after ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

Mine is, naturally, a bed of godly proportions. This is despite the fact that I have not grown a millimeter since I was a ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

For those struggling to cope with Trump's flurry of executive orders, Simone Weil and 'The Iliad' offer useful guidance.

Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for teaching: "Pleasure is the principle and end to a happy life" and for his Epicurean school in Athens ...

Schliemann believed he had found the burial mask of Agamemnon, the legendary king who led the Greeks during the Trojan War, ...

A Nigerian pastor accused Cupid of being the demon responsible for sin on Valentine's Day. He called for a ban on Valentine's ...

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.