The Atlantic

Symonds's Greek Poets

MR. SYMONDS’S volumes are are vision of two books, entitled respectively Studies of the Greek Poets and Studies of the Greek Poets (Second Series), published in London ; the first in 1873, and the ...
Slate

Why Does English Use “Iambic Pentameter” and Other Greek Poetic Terms?

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...
The Atlantic

What English Poetry May Still Learn From Greek

MY first words must be an apology for the title of this paper. It may seem a rather arrogant theme for a professor of Greek to lay before modern readers. But the truth is that I do not for a moment ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Anne Pippin Burnett, renowned scholar of Greek poetry, 1925–2017

Prof. Anne Pippin Burnett, a renowned scholar of Greek poetry and a UChicago faculty member for more than three decades, passed away April 26 at her home in Kingston, Ontario. She was 91. Burnett ...
Neos Kosmos

Spotlight on Greek Australian writers through new anthologies

Dr Konstandina Dounis’ newly established publishing house ‘SeaRiver Press’ is slated to showcase the works of numerous Greek ...
Greek Reporter

Dreams as Messages from the Gods in Ancient Greek Thought

Ancient Greeks viewed dreams as divine messages, omens or natural phenomena, with interpretations from Homer, Plato, Aristotle and others.