Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece’s major poets and an eminent exponent of romantic ...
Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.
In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...
The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.
The Greek salad elevates what’s often a side dish to main character status. Crisp romaine provides the foundation for ...
Veteran documentarian Stavros Psillakis returns to Thessaloniki with an investigation of the history of the Hansenites in ...
The event featured a reading by poet and lecturer Cintia Santana, as well as brief presentations by a panel of graduate students on poetry they resonate with.
Epic poetry is one of the most important and fascinating literary genres in ancient Greek literature, and has had a profound effect on later reception of Greek and the Greeks. During this course we ...
As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...
Her reading would provide an image of a specific racial experience told through the lens of Greek myth, while also navigating a line where the racial experience isn’t the only message to be taken from ...
Leaked audio instructions by Greek rescue co-ordinators have cast further doubt on Greece's official version of events in the hours before a migrant boat sank along with up to 650 people onboard.