Greek Reporter

How an Ancient Greek Gesture of Trust Became the Modern Handshake

The handshake originated thousands of years ago when Ancient Greeks used it to show their dominant right hand was not holding ...
Greek Reporter

The Piercing Gaze of Ancient Greek Sculptures

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...
Martijn Around The World on MSN

This ancient agora reveals Greece’s powerful classical past

The Ancient Agora of Athens was once the political, commercial, and social center of ancient Greek life. Surrounded by ...
Smith College

Classical Studies

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

An ancient city was left in ruins—but this remarkable statue survived

When two British explorers excavated the remnants of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in 1861, many tombs had already been ...
The New Yorker

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

Mark Abbe was ambushed by color in 2000, while working on an archeological dig in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey. At the time, he was a graduate student at New York ...
America Magazine

A defense of learning Latin and Greek (Also: Why does it even need defending?)

There is no assessment more objective than a written exam in an ancient language. Such a test measures recall of and facility with a language that exists only on the printed page, one governed by a ...