A “myth of the past” is necessary to justify “contemporary preoccupations,” writes Oswyn Murray, an emeritus fellow at Oxford. This is a profound realization, and it leads the author to a rousing ...

“G reek literature contains the germs of almost everything, so you can treat of almost all tendencies in treating of it,” the Hellenist Gilbert Murray wrote in the year 1900. One and a quarter ...

THE notion of the antiquary current among many educated people is still that which Scott has illustrated and immortalized in the person of Mr. Oldbuck of Monkbarns, a man full of trifles and hobbies, ...

The Monument of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square, Athens, stands as a solemn tribute to Greek soldiers who died in war.

There is a famous quote often attributed to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, although some debate whether he said it: “From henceforth, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, ...

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OUR stock of positive knowledge in regard to Greek literature may never be much greater than it is now Neither a renewed search among the dust-covered and decaying libraries of the Greek monasteries, ...