As a poet, lyricist, and teacher, Sappho might be one of the most well-studied and researched women of her time. But, as always, new opinions and analyses appear, making us…

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…

Aeschylus’ Agamemnon was first performed in 458BC, and its parodos is the chorus’ entry-song. In contrast with later extant 5th Century BC tragedies where the actors and dialogue seem to…

The epigram started out as an inscription (ἐπιγραμμα), first appearing in elegiac metre in the 7th century BC.[1] Originally featuring on tombs and statues, it then expanded to become sympotic…

Literature from classical antiquity is riddled with references to the transience of everything in this world: Heraclitus famously says ‘nothing is permanent except change’[1]and Herodotus states ‘human prosperity never continues…