I refer to Professor Josephine Quinn’s thought-provoking article in the FT’s weekend edition (“The civilisation myth”, The Weekend Essay, Life & Arts, February 3). Setting classical Greeks on a ...

Greece has recently grabbed headlines for the wrong reasons. While commentators indulge in schadenfreude, we think it’s time to celebrate the things the country still does rather well. With 13,700km ...

We're just a few months into US president Donald Trump's second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny. This may all feel very new to Americans, and to the rest of us ...

What have classical Greece and Rome to do with Ireland and its politics? Readers will be familiar with the many Irish literary artists who have drawn from the well of classical literature, both those ...

It is a commonplace among music historians that there was a deep-seated aversion to the aulos in ancient Greece. At the root of this alleged aversion lies the identification of the instrument with ...

Classical Greek and Roman history encompasses the political, social and cultural developments of the Mediterranean world from the emergence of the Greek city-states in the eighth century BCE to the ...

Despite the impressive skills of modern science, the way to discover profitable mineral deposits around the Mediterranean often seems to be to curl up with a good book. Perusing the Greek classics and ...