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Greek sculpture from 800 to 300 BCE took early inspiration from Egyptian and Near Eastern monumental art, and over centuries evolved into a uniquely Greek vision of the art form. Greek artists would reach a peak of artistic excellence which captured the human form in a way never before seen and which was much copied.

May 07, 2023

Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music

May 02, 2023

Oldest Song from Ancient Greece: The Seikilos Song

The Seikilos Stele contains the oldest song from ancient Greece and dates to c.100 BCE. This video explores how the stele was found and how the song sounds; it is sung at 2:28! As long as you live,shine forth do not at all grieve,Life exists for a short while,Time takes its course.Hoson zēis phainou mēden holōs su lupou pros oligon esti to zēn to telos ho chronos apaitei.

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Did the Spartans Throw Their Babies Off the Cliff?

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13 Facts You Did Not Know About the Acropolis of Athens

13 June 2023

The Great Fire of Rome: Was Emperor Nero Really Behind It?

Alexander's Legacy: The Hellenistic Period and the Dawn of a New Era

Hypatia And The Great Fall Of Alexandria

The Longest Greek Word is Actually an Ancient Recipe

Hypatia: The Female Greek Philosopher Killed for Her Beliefs

June 17, 2023

7 Cities in Turkey of Great Greek Heritage

Turkey was once full of Greek cities which were the cradle of ancient Greek scientific and philosophical thought. Visitors can still find the remnants of a glorious past.

June 15, 2023

Agnodice: The First Woman Doctor of Ancient Greece

Women in the medical arts can be traced back to the story of Agnodice in ancient Greece. Some scholars argue that she was not a real person but rather a well-constructed myth. Whether lore or not, her story has been clung to by midwives for millennia. As the story goes, Agnodice had been determined since her youth to aid women in their childbearing—a task that for much of human history fell to female relatives or wizened old women. Facing young Agnodice in Ancient Greece was the problem that women had been completely blocked from studying, let alone practicing, medicine, which included the…

June 11, 2023

5 Ancient Greek Engineering Inventions Still Used Today

The influence of Ancient Greece on the modern world is pervasive, from democratic institutions to classical influences on art and architecture. The ancient civilization also invented a wide range of technologies, some of which are now central to modern life. From the odometer to the gimbal, these ancient Greek engineering inventions are ubiquitous today and have been central to many advancements that followed. Read more below for 5 famous examples of ancient Greek technology still used today.

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A History of Epic w/ Gregory Nagy and Leonard Muellner (Homer, Iliad, Gilgamesh)

What can anthropology tell us about the origins of humanity's oldest epic storie...

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Age of Conquests - The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian - Angelos Chaniotis

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his...

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All Episodes Troy Fall of a City, Episode 2. Perhaps tell the bride..

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All Episodes Troy Fall of a City, Episode 5. "Uncle Owen? Aunt Beru??"

A weekly recap of some pointers from Troy, Fall of a City. In the fifth epsiode...

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The Story of Oedipus: The Most Tragic of All Greek Myths

08 June 2023

The Greek Goddess Gaia and Her Connection to Earth Day

05 June 2023

Iris, the Greek Goddess of the Rainbow

02 June 2023

Homeric Hymn to Demeter Or The Thesmophoria – Which Came First?

29 May 2023

May 28, 2023

A History of Epic w/ Gregory Nagy and Leonard Muellner (Homer, Iliad, Gilgamesh)

What can anthropology tell us about the origins of humanity's oldest epic stories? And what can these epics, in turn, tell us about our undying fascination with heroes? Joining us to explore these topics and more are Gregory Nagy, professor of classics at Harvard University and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, as well as Leonard Muellner, professor emeritus at Brandeis University and director for publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies.

May 27, 2023

Homer's Meta-Odyssey w/ Richard Martin

Mythology expert Richard Martin joins us to discuss why the Odyssey has been considered great story-telling by audiences across millennia. As we talked about in episode 2 (on the Iliad), the Homeric epics came out of a long tradition of oral storytelling that stretched back hundreds of years into the Bronze Age. If there was a Homer, he did not just make up all these monsters and adventures up the top of his head. He inherited most of the individual episodes from the oral tradition. If we want to understand what makes the Odyssey great story-telling, we should look not for originality in the…

May 26, 2023

Athletics in Homer’s Odyssey

Athletic scenes in the Odyssey are numerous, occur at critical moments in the text, and illustrate status, identity, and power dynamics between various characters. Much has been written on the famous scenes of athletics in the poem, such as the games of the Phaeacians, the boxing match between Odysseus and the beggar Irus, and contest of the bow. This talk focuses on several other athletic depictions in the poem to consider the breadth of ancient cultural knowledge of sport and its importance across the epic.

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Ancient Greek Philosophers’ Timeless Wisdom and Quotes

12 June 2023

Plato’s Theaetetus: What is True Knowledge?

Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Philosopher of Change (Bio & Quotes)

How an ancient polymath first calculated Earth’s size, as told by Carl Sagan

Examining Plato’s Most Important Dialogues: What is ‘The Sophist’?

June 16, 2023

Did Ancient Greeks Enjoy Swimming and Going to the Beach?

Every summer, Greeks flock to the beaches of the Aegean and the Ionian seas to swim, sunbathe, or just relax in picturesque tavernas or modern beach bars. But did the ancient Greeks swim and enjoy the beach as much as we do today? What was the relationship of ancient Greeks to the beach? It may seem unlikely that affluent inland Athenians or Spartans would ride their chariot to the shore. Although the culture of vacationing at the beach only really got started in the late 1700s in Europe, as improved transportation made it easier to reach the sea, there is evidence that ancient Greeks indeed…

June 14, 2023

Did the Ancient Greeks See Blue Like We Do?

Although Greece is full of many shades of blue—iconic blue roofs found across the islands, rich sapphire seas, and bright blue skies—linguists and experts on the ancient world have long been puzzled by the conspicuous absence of a distinct word for the color in Ancient Greek. Yet does this mean that Ancient Greeks could not see the color blue, as some argue, or that they just saw it differently, considering it not as a distinct color, but as part of a spectrum of shades? We know that language, especially regarding colors, has a significant impact on the way we experience the world around us.…

June 10, 2023

Plato’s Parmenides: 3 Arguments Against Plato’s Theory of Forms

How did Parmenides criticize Plato’s theory of reality? This article explores three of the objections which Parmenides raises against Plato’s theory of the forms, in Plato’s eponymous dialogue. This theory, as developed in the Parmenides, is itself an attack on a key tenet of Parmenides’ philosophy. This article firstly situates the Parmenides within Plato’s wider authorship, then explains the argument which the theory of forms is developed in response to, before setting out Parmenides three most significant objections: the ‘whole-part dilemma’, the ‘third man’ argument, and the epistemic…

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