New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2 nd Century CE, 300 years earlier ...

"I'm falling in love with her," Patricia Barber sings in the opening line of "Narcissus," from her splendid new Mythologies — a song-cycle based on the Greek myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Given the ...

As a classicist, I am often asked for Greek and Roman reflections on love for holidays and weddings. I usually admit at the outset that ancient ideas about love rarely match modern expectations. Take, ...

Eros, the ancient Greek god of love, is captured peacefully asleep in this exquisite sculpture exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum.

The title of the Getty Center exhibition, “Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood From the Classical Past,” sounds benign. But some Greek children never came of age. Fragments of pottery ...