Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

THE subject which I have chosen for to-day’s lecture might seem to you rather remote from the topic of English literature, at least, from the topic of English literature as taught in Japan. Here the ...

A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her ascending to the stars. Based on the lettering styles and ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An ...

The poems of Bacchylides, which were discovered in Egypt in January, 1897, have just been published by the British Museum. Bacchylides, who is thus brought to our notice, was a contemporary and rival ...

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The back of the newly deciphered papyrus. It wasn't unusual in the ancient world for texts to be written on both sides. The back of the newly deciphered papyrus. It wasn't unusual in the ancient world ...