“Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by Euripides. She discovered that play ...

Truly inspired Greek mythology books and retellings It’s nearly impossible to walk into a bookstore or a library and not come across at least one mythology-inspired book. The original myths may ...

Some of the Princeton University Library's greatest treasures will be on display in a fall exhibition that traces the long cultural history of the Greeks. "The Greek Book From Papyrus to Printing" ...

Madeline Miller’s hit 2011 novel The Song of Achilles, which reimagines The Iliad, sparked an enduring literary trend. In the decade-plus since, novels that put a new spin on Greek epics like ...

Rhapsodes were the master storytellers of Ancient Greece who memorized and performed thousands of lines of Homer's works.

Political scientist Josiah Ober argues that the successes of ancient Greek democracy can serve as a model for the democratic governments of today. But it may not be easy to apply ancient lessons ...

Doing isotope analysis of ancient teeth, a team of researchers from the University of Georgia has uncovered some Greek military secrets that you won’t find in history books, including the fact ...

Long before books and digital libraries, Ancient Greece relied on memory and voice to keep its stories alive. At the heart of ...