Everyone wants to find the type of love that lasts. The Ancient Greeks identified eight different types of love. And, they are as important today as they were 3,000 years ago. For your relationship to ...

As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is far too little to recognize everything mothers do. But my work as a scholar of ancient Greek literature has ...

It was the philosopher (and enthusiast of things Greek) Friedrich Nietzsche who suggested that history should be read through the lens of its usefulness for contemporary "life" and "action," an idea ...

Thanks to Homer and his Odyssey we met Circe who has often been identified as the first witch of Greek Mythology.

Writing her debut book, “Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives,” Amelia Possanza kept questioning why the stories of some people get a place in the history books, while others get lost to time. For ...

Installation shot, Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World. The Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Photo by Edward Goldman. With it’s new exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, The ...

Pasteli (Greek: παστέλι) the ancient Greek dessert, has very few ingredients, but it has a great deal of history behind it. A ...

During those first few weeks of a new romance, we constantly crave the ecstasy we reach when our crush is near, yet we can dive into deep despair if we feel as though our feelings aren’t reciprocated.

Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. As a father of three and the husband of an ...