My dear friend Kori Schake has written a wonderful article at War on the Rocks in praise (mostly) of my new book, The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern. The book takes up the subject of how ...

On the page, the roll call of characters for Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida reads like a glittering who’s who of ancient ...

Recently, more and more foreign authors have been turning to ancient Greece to get inspiration for their novels.

Achilles was a central hero in the ancient Greek tradition, but he doesn't meet the modern conception of a hero. This is the mythology of Achilles explained. Loni Anderson's cause of death revealed ...

Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” has become much more than a best-selling mythic romance; it’s a rite of passage for some LGBTQIA+ readers. First published in 2011, this Greek war epic — told ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Art Bulletin publishes leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, ...

Queer love stories in games usually come in two flavours: those that are defined solely by their queerness, and those that are just like heteronormative relationships with the serial numbers filed off ...

I’ve been a Greek history geek since my grandmother sat me down with a bowl of kalamata olives, feta cheese and a book of Greek mythology at the kitchen table and said: “This is your history. This is ...

Andrea is a freelance writer who graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She has been playing games her entire life, having grown up on platformers and RPGs. When ...

Alex Michaelides is the author of The Silent Patient, a psychological thriller that became a No. 1 best-seller. His second novel, The Maidens, also draws on Greek myth, as death stalks the female ...