What does it take to stage Cresphontes, a lost Euripides tragedy, when all that remains of it are a few fragments of papyrus?

The most influential character on Showtime’s Yellowjackets is the one who goes unnamed: Dionysus.

In the late nineteenth century, historian John Addington Symonds fought back against his colleagues’ refusal to acknowledge historical same-sex relationships.

We know the sirens of Homeric Greece sang a seductive song, but what did they look like, and why are they going viral on social media?

Lord Elgin went beyond his original mandate, amassing a vast store of treasures, one scholar notes.

Many of us strive to avoid talking politics at a big holiday feasts. But in Homer's Greece, feasting was all about politics.

The American philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s new book, The Monarchy of Fear, examines the politics of primal fear in the 2016 election.