The mysterious Sibylline Books were secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of ancient Rome consulted in times of crisis.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

Greek mythology, originating in late Bronze Age oral traditions, became foundational classical literature, embedding profound truths about life, gods and human nature. These timeless narratives ...

Madeline Miller’s hit 2011 novel The Song of Achilles, which reimagines The Iliad, sparked an enduring literary trend. In the decade-plus since, novels that put a new spin on Greek epics like Homer’s ...

New York and Oxford: Routledge, 1976 / 2025. Pp. 274+. Illus., maps, appends., gloss., notes, index. $96.00. ISBN:104101399X A reissue of a class work on Greece ...

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster, The Odyssey, adapts the epic poem attributed to the highly revered ancient Greek poet, Homer. As one of the oldest surviving literary works, this 8th-century BC epic ...

The Petelia Tablet is an ancient Greek gold artifact that provides instructions for an individual's journey to a safe afterlife.