On Friday October 18, the Melbourne Theatre Company will host a play reading of a new work, 'The Greek Word for Funeral'.

By now you’ve probably heard of “opa,” the Greek word that means celebration, but there is another word to help expand that ...

As one studies the Greek language, he learns even more, such as the ancient Greek wish of a mother to her son containing only ...

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Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough ...

The word “academic” derives from Plato’s Academy, which he founded on ground that was named after the legendary Greek hero Academos, or Hekademos. And academic was someone who taught or studied at the ...

The etymological origins of the term are Greek for “new” and “word.” New words spring from new technologies and disciplines, but they’re very often invented by logophiles, by authors and ...

Graffiti is something we are very familiar with, but how many of us know that this form of art was widely spread in ancient Greece?

This article is part of a series of articles produced by local LGBTQ+ publications celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. Philad ...