Greek Reporter

The Piercing Gaze of Ancient Greek Sculptures

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

An ancient city was left in ruins—but this remarkable statue survived

When two British explorers excavated the remnants of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in 1861, many tombs had already been ...
Greek Reporter

Monumental Tomb Uncovered in Ancient Greek City of Olympos in Turkey

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a monumental tomb and a decorated marble sarcophagus in the ancient Greek city of Olympos.
Ancient Origins

Sinister Looking Greek Theater Mask Found Inside a Cave in Croatia

The mask is hollow inside and features a small hole at the top, indicating it was likely suspended, perhaps hung on a wall within the cave . In the ancient Greek world, theatrical masks were not mere ...
Smith College

Classical Studies

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...
The New Yorker

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

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 ...
America Magazine

A defense of learning Latin and Greek (Also: Why does it even need defending?)

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 ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Greek History M.A. Reading List

The following list specifies the required readings and options for the M.A. in Classical Antiquity, Special Field examination in Greek History. Students are expected to consult with an appropriate ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...