UK scientists made a breakthrough in deciphering ancient scrolls charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ...

Every year as Valentine’s Day approaches, people remind themselves that not all expressions of love fit the stereotypes of ...

There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

Athens was deeply polarized over big-picture questions, and Socrates was never hesitant to question both sides’ assumptions – ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

Thumos, the ancient drive for honor and recognition, remains overlooked in psychiatry. Yet its role in extremism, ideological ...

A multi-dimensional mathematical theory applied to texts belonging to the classical Greek Literature spanning eight centuries ...

Bolstered by renowned texts and international trips, the Western Humanities sequence attracts many underclass students, while ...

His two early papers “What Numbers Could Not Be” (1965) and “Mathematical Truth” (1973) — the latter of which came to be called “the Benacerraf problem" — became instant classics and are discussed to ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...