"Between 800 and 300 BC, people who spoke Greek made a rapid series of intellectual discoveries that propelled the Mediterranean world to a new level of civilization." That's the first sentence of ...

“I have tried to tell an old story in a new way,” said Professor Edith Hall of Kings College in London as she responded to this reporter’s inquiries. Author of over a dozen books, she a classical ...

On June 16, when connoisseurs of modern literature were celebrating Bloomsday—the date of the events fictionalized by James Joyce in "Ulysses"—a few readers with a more antiquarian bent were observing ...

Hall (Introducing the Ancient Greeks), a professor of classics specializing in ancient Greek literature at King’s College, delivers an expansive, practical assessment of Aristotle intended to help ...

“In 1900,” explains novelist and essayist Dasgupta (Capital) in this brilliant study, “only about 25 per cent of the world’s population lived in a recognizably ‘national’ Continue reading » Sex and ...