Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World At 3 o'clock one summer morning, a young classics scholar was crashing around in the ...

Walter Burkert was a giant among scholars of ancient Greek culture, one whose work had resonance well beyond the world of classical scholarship. He combined awesome learning, brilliant expository ...

AE Stallings is the Oxford Professor of Poetry; her latest book is This Afterlife: Selected Poems. The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, translated by Christopher Childers, is published by ...

Madeline Miller’s hit 2011 novel The Song of Achilles, which reimagines The Iliad, sparked an enduring literary trend. In the decade-plus since, novels that put a new spin on Greek epics like Homer’s ...

Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York and Philadelphia. For the last 10 years she has taught Latin and Ancient Greek to high school students. The Song of Achilles, published by ...

Frederic Edwin Church’s 1871 painting, The Parthenon. The temple had already suffered damage from earthquake, bombing and occupation before Lord Elgin’s arrival in 1801 Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of ...