During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

Bathed in the glow of neon lights, Pan Wei-ju looks like a supernatural being. Onstage as Aristophanes, she is no different: her music sounds like it could have been beamed down from a spaceship.

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

There’s a story from ancient Athens that still feels relevant. In 426 BCE, during the annual Athenian drama festival, the comic playwright Aristophanes staged ‘The Babylonians’, a biting satire of ...