Arguably the two most culturally significant languages in the world: Greek and Latin, share a common linguistic root: Phonecian. This intricate connection which has developed from trade, cultural diffusion and…

The eponymous title of Sophocles’ Antigone is rather misleading: not only does it suggest there to be one central plot but also one main character – something we should find…

Plato is known throughout the world as one of the most accomplished and influential thinkers of all time. However, there was another aspect of his for which he would have…

Ostensibly, Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic effusive in its praise and admiration for Emperor Augustus and it has been regarded thus by most readers since. Virgil primarily achieves this through…

Paintings on fourth-century B.C. Greek pots can be an outcome of the interaction between plays and visual art, as exemplified by the ones relating to Euripides’ Medea and Hippolytus, which…