Joel Christensen is a professor of classical studies at Brandeis. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. Living on the North Shore in Boston in the fall brings the gorgeous turning of ...

A symposium is a ritualized drinking event in ancient Greece. Its name, "symposium," literally refers to a "drinking together," a hint for the defining activity shared by participants of the symposium ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Many of the artefacts and stories that have been preserved from ancient Greece relate to warfare, which ...