History
From City-States to Empires: How the Ancients Learned to Think Big
For much of early Greek history, the world was small. Political life centered on the city-state, the polis, a community that could be s...
Why Homer Was the First Teacher of the Greeks
Before there were philosophers, before there were schools, before there were written laws studied in classrooms, there was Homer. For c...
What it Means to Carry a Literary Heritage
A literary heritage is often described as something we “inherit.” But in real life, inheritance is not passive. It is not a box of old ...
How Ancient Greek Literature Survived Against All Odds
An adventure in transmission: from sung epics to papyrus rolls, from Byzantine scriptoria to Renaissance presses, from desert rubbish h...
Alexander the Great Through Greek Eyes
Alexander the Great is often presented as a universal hero, a military genius, and a symbol of unstoppable ambition. Yet the way people...