Greek Reporter

Unraveling the Secrets of Parion: An Ancient Greek City on the Hellespont

Parion, also known as Parium, was an ancient Greek city located on the coast of the Hellespont in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey.

7 Household Items Every Ancient Greek Family Owned

These seemingly boring items can tell us a lot about the home life of the ancient Greeks.

The Odyssey is set in a fantasy world – but the ancient Greeks mapped it onto what they knew

The ancient Greeks would have enjoyed current controversies about the “historical accuracy” of Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation of The Odyssey. The Greeks loved arguing about the “truth” of Homer’s ...
Greek Reporter

Ancient Greek Story of Antigone Warns Against Sin of Pride

The story from Greek mythology of Antigone and Polynices is a cautionary tale about the sin of pride and how it leads to our ...

The Ancient Greek Curse Tablets People Used Against Their Enemies

Cursing their enemies was a common pastime of the ancient Greeks.
Phys.org

Ancient Greek sanctuary slowly sinks into the Aegean Sea

A brief boat ride from the thrumming nightclubs of Mykonos lies the UNESCO heritage site of Delos, one of the most important sanctuaries of the ancient Greek and Roman world. Surrounded by piercing ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...
NPR

The Sound Of Ancient Greek In 'The Iliad'

Some of the languages of the world are lost. No one speaks them, so no one's heard them, and their existence is hardly ever talked about. But one of those dead languages lives on in its incredible ...