Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

Phainos was the most famous fisherman of his time who lived in the 2nd century AD in the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus.

Mark Abbe was ambushed by color in 2000, while working on an archeological dig in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey. At the time, he was a graduate student at New York ...

There is no assessment more objective than a written exam in an ancient language. Such a test measures recall of and facility with a language that exists only on the printed page, one governed by a ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...

The Journal of Hellenic Studies was first issued in 1880 and is internationally recognized as one of the foremost periodicals in the field of Classical scholarship. It contains articles on a wide ...

For students with no previous knowledge of Greek. Introduces basic grammar and vocabulary. 4 credits Offered in the Fall on the main campus, and in the Summer through Continuing Education, as an ...